Numbers 99. Reports of Brigadier General Hamilton P. Bee, C. S. Army, commanding Cavalry Division.

HEADQUARTERS BEE'S DIVISION OF CAVALRY,

Pleasant Hill, La., April 10, 1864.

SIR: I have the honor to report operations of my command in the battles of Mansfield and Pleasant Hill.

I marched from Columbus, on the Colorado River, in Texas, March 11, with six regiments of cavalry-Debray's, Buchel's, Terrell's, Woods', Gould's, and Likens'-and reported to General Richard Taylor, commanding army of operations in Louisiana, on April 5 at Mansfield, La., with the three first-named regiments. The others, being delayed by incidents of so long march, did not arrive in time to participate in the battles of the 8th and 9th. . . . . .

OR V34, Pt. 1, p. 606