This unit was attached to Lt. Col. Christopher C. Wilbourn's Command, of Lt. Col. George Gnatt's Cavalry Command, Maj. Gen. Franklin Gardner's 3d Military District at Port Hudson, LA, Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton's Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana, and commanded by Lt. Col. Christopher C. Wilbourn. This organization was not bottled up in Port Hudson and continued to operate militarily outside of the fortification works. [Refer to Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Volume XXIV, Part 1 - Reports, page 707; and to Edwin Bearss' The Vicksburg Campaign, Volume II, page 251.]
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