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Wilson's raid through Alabama and Georgia.
see General James H. Wilson's article, the Union cavalry in the Hood campaign, p. 465.--editors.
In the spring of 1865 the cavalry corps commanded by General James H. Wilson was encamped at Gravelly Springs and Waterloo, Alabama [see map, p. 414], on the north bank of the Tennessee, with a base of supplies at Eastport, Mississippi.
The following condensation of General Wilson's report of June 29th, 1865, summarizes the final operations of his corps:
On the 23d of February, 1865] General Thomas arrived at Eastport with instructions directing me to fit out an expedition of five or six thousand cavalry for the purpose of making a demonstration upon Tuscaloosa and Selma in favor of General Canby's operations against Mobile and Central Alabama.
[See p. 411.] . . . The instructions of Lieutenant-General Grant, transmitted to me by General Thomas, allowed me the amplest discretion as an independent commander.
The movement was delay