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There are a number of references to George M. Jessee in the Official Records, Vol. 39

Here are a few:

LOUISVILLE, June 15, 1864.
(Received 12 m.)

Major-General HEINTZELMAN:

The wires east of Eminence are destroyed. Captain George M. Jessee, of Morgan's command, reached his home, and on Sunday called a meeting in Trimble County and raised 200 men. He was at New Castle last night at sundown, when college commencement was held, and secured . . .

OR V 39, Pt. 2, p. 121

HENRY B. CARRINGTON,
Brigadier-General.

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LOUISVILLE, KY., June 19, 1864.

Lieutenant E. B. HARLAN,
Acting Assistant Adjutant-General, Munfordville, Ky.:

The rebel Jessee yesterday captured 25 convalescent under charge of Lieutenant Driskill, Forty-eighth Kentucky, at Bardstown, and paroled them. I am afraid the surrender was unnecessary. The rebels burned water station and bridge on Lebanon Branch last evening at Boston. They crossed the Nashville road two miles north of Elizabethtown last night, numbering about 300, and going on in the direction of Grayson County. Will report by mail.

THOS. B. FAIRLEIGH,
Lieutenant-Colonel Twenty-sixth Kentucky Vet. Vols., Commanding

OR V39, Pt. 2, p. 130

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HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF Kentucky,

June 30, 1864.

Brigadier General N. C. McLEAN,
Commanding First DIVISION, Lexington, Ky.:

GENERAL: The general commanding directs that you send at once a force of eighty well mounted and well armed men, under active and energetic officers, to Owenton or vicinity, to attack the rebels under George Jessee, and with positive orders to pursue and break up the gang. Inclosed is a copy of a telegram* giving some information concerning Jessee's movements.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

J. BATES DICKSON,
Captain and Assistant Adjutant- General.

*Not found.

OR V 39, Pt. 2, p. 154

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LOUISVILLE, KY., August 30, 1864.

Captain J. BATES DICKSON,
Assistant Adjutant-General, Lexington:

Last evening Jessee, with 150 men, captured a squad of 8 or 10 colored troops at Ghent, and murdered them. Other squads are in the country where he is hunting. Can't you send some men there?

THOS B. FAIRLEIGH,
Lieutenant-Colonel.

OR V 39 Pt. 2, p. 323

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LEXINGTON, September 11, 1864.

Brigadier General HUGH EWING,
Louisville, Ky.:

Have you any official information of the capture of Jessee and his command? The general commanding directs that all captured guerrillas be held for trial by military commission.

J. BATES DICKSON,
Captain and Assistant Adjutant-General.

LOUISVILLE, KY., September 11, 1864.

Captain J. B. DICKSON,
Assistant Adjutant-General:

I have no information of the capture of Jessee or any of his command. I informed Holeman that he might officer good terms to those who came in and gave themselves up.

HUGH EWING,
Brigadier-General.

OR V39 Pt. 2, p. 362

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