Letter written March 1st, 1865 by Captain Waddy T. Armstrong of the 6th Alabama Cavalry to Brigadier General Benjamin Jefferson Hill from Oxford, Alabama. One page.
Captain Armstrong says in the letter that he has established a headquarters in Oxford and asks for provisions to be sent.
Armstrong was born to a prominent family in Alabama, his cousin was Hugh Thompson, who was at one time Governor of South Carolina. He died in Pensacola, Florida after the war.
“Benjamin Jefferson Hill, a native of Tennessee, was at the beginning of the war appointed Colonel of the 5th Regiment, Provisional Army of Tennessee, which later became the 35th Tennessee Volunteer Infantry. The command was assigned to Cleburne's brigade, and Hill led it with marked gallantry at Shiloh, in Bragg's Kentucky campaign, and in the battles of Chickamauga and Chattanooga. In late 1863 he was appointed provost marshal of the Army of Tennessee and served in that capacity during the Atlanta campaign, being relieved August 24, 1864. He was promoted brigadier general on November 30, 1864, as a reward for distinguished services during Hood's Tennessee campaign. In this campaign he led a cavalry command and co-operated with Bate's division in the attempted destruction of the railroad and blockhouses between Murfreesboro and Nashville. In the last months of the war he commanded a brigade under Forrest, and participated in the latter's campaign against the Federal General Wilson.”
- Generals in Gray, Lives of the Confederate Commanders by Ezra J. Warner.