WILLIAM HUDSON LAWRENCE,
_Colonel 34th New Jersey Volunteers, Commanding Post_.
Brigadier General A. BUFORD
_Commanding Confederate forces before Columbus, Ky_.
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The following affidavit was furnished, at the request of the committee,
by General W. S. Rosecrans, from St. Louis:
"HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSOURI,
"_Saint Louis, April 26, 1864_.
"Respectfully forwarded to Hon. B. F. Wade, Cairo, Illinois, chairman
congressional Committee on Conduct of the War.
"W. S. ROSECRANS,
"_Major General, Commanding_.
"By O. D. GREEN, A. A. G.,
"_Absence of General_."
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_Statement of Edward B. Benton, upon oath, relative to the massacre by
the confederate troops under General Forrest, at Fort Pillow,
Tennessee._