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ce at dark, and pushed on himself with Ruger's troops to open communication with Stanley. The head of the main column followed close behind. Schofield struck the enemy's cavalry at dark, about three miles south of Spring Hill, brushing them away without difficulty, and reaching Spring Hill at seven. Here he found Stanley still in possession, but the rebel army bivouacking within eight hundred yards of the road. Posting one brigade to hold the road, he pushed on with Ruger's division to Thompson's station, three miles beyond. At this point the camp fires of the rebel cavalry were still burning, but the enemy had disappeared, and the cross-roads were secured without difficulty. The withdrawal of the force at Columbia was now safely effected, and Spring Hill was passed without molestation in the night, the troops moving within gun-shot of the enemy. Before daylight, the entire national column had passed, and at an early hour on the 30th, Schofield's command was in position at Fran
except in the case of Johnston's army to General Sherman. ordnance office, War Department, December 30, 1880. Extract from a memorandum copy of a consolidated Report of exchanged and paroled prisoners of War during the rebellion, made by the commissary General of prisoners to the Secretary of War, December 6, 1865. Paroled armies, rebel. Army of Northern Virginia, commanded by General R. E. Lee 27,805 Army of Tennessee, and others, commanded by General J E Johnston31,243 General Jeff Thompson's Army of Missouri7,978 Miscellaneous Paroles, Department of Virginia 9,072 Paroled at Cumberland, Maryland, and other stations9,377 Paroled by General McCook, in Alabama and Florida6,428 Army of the Department of Alabama, Lieutenant-General R. Taylor42,293 Army of the Trans-Mississippi Department, General E. K. Smith17,686 Paroled in the Department of Washington3,390 Paroled in Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, and Texas13,922 Surrendered at Nashville and Ch