HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND, Near Brown’s Mill, Ga., June 3, 1864.
Brigadier General Brigadier General Kenner Garrard,
Commanding Second Cavalry Division:
GENERAL: The major-general commanding directs that you send two regiments of your division to scour the country between Burnt Hickory and the Etowah River and drive off the rebel cavalry now infesting that region, and thus afford greater protection to our trains and couriers. Let this be done as speedily as possible.
Yours, very respectfully,
WM. D. WHIPPLE,
Brigadier-General and Chief of Staff.