ORs: Report of Col. John Adams, C. S. Army

ORs: Series 1, Volume 10, Number 1, Page 887

Headquarters Brigade,
Camp Foster, Ala.,
May 10, 1862.

GENERAL: Herewith I have the honor to forward a report from Lieutenant-Colonel Woodward of a skirmish with the enemy yesterday. I shall forward the prisoners over the mountain by the turnpike road to Tuscaloosa, Ala.

Colonel Saunders, my aide-de-camp, has addressed a letter to Hon.Charles Gibson and Col. Levi M. Warner, at Moulton, requesting them to relieve my guard and furnish one to accompany the prisoners thence to Tuscaloosa.

The negroes I shall have tried by a military commission, and, if it 18 found that any were taken with arms in their hands, it may be neceseary to inflict summary punishment; otherwise I shall order them turned over to the civil authorities.

I am, general, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
JOHN ADAMS,
Colonel, Commanding Brigade.

Endorsed: Brig. Gen. THOMAS JORDAN, A. A. G.

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