| Engineer Office |
| Mobile, Ala. |
| December 20, 1864 |
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| Maj. James H. Alexander |
| Assistant Adjutant-General |
| Engineer Bureau |
| Richmond, Va. |
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| Major |
| I have the honor to submit the following
report of operations for the month of November, 1864, in the
Department of Alabama,
Mississippi
, and
East Louisiana
. ***** During the month I visited, with Major-General Smith, the
Army of Tennessee, at Tuscumbia and
Florence, Ala., with a view of making arrangements for rendering such assistance
to that army as this department could furnish, to facilitate its
operations beyond the Tennessee River. Maj. D. Wintter was put in charge of all operations tending to
this result and stationed at Corinth, Miss. The following is his report for these and other operations
in the District of Mississippi and East Louisiana: |
| ***** on
the Tennessee River; ferry established at Cheatham's and Garner's
Ferries, on the Tennessee River, and the supply-train for General Hood's army forwarded. The
Memphis & Charleston Railroad from Corinth, Miss., to Barton Station,
Ala., repaired. |
| ***** The ferries established at
Cheatham's and Garner's Ferries were kept in operation by the
engineer troops. The repairs on the railroad were made by engineer
troops and engineer negro force. |
| ***** At Coosa and Yellow Leaf bridges,
on the Alabama & Tennessee River Railroad, laborers were engaged
on the road between the two points and in finishing redoubt at the
latter place. |
| ***** |
| I have the honor to be, major, very respectfully,
your obedient servant, |
| Saml. H. Lockett |
| Colonel and Chief Engineer, Dept. of Ala., Miss., and
East La. |
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