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243 Series I Volume XI-III Serial 14 - Peninsular Campaign Part III

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by the enemy, where or when to be made he could not say. General Reynolds reports that some camps opposite Meadow Bridge seem temporarily deserted, though left standing. The commanding general desires that you will take every means to obtain the earliest possible information of any movements the enemy may attempt. He wishes further that you should push your patrols to watch the roads crossing the Pamunkey, and also to keep your command well in hand for prompt action in any quarter. He further directs that any information you may obtain should at once be communicated to these headquarters. If any intimation of a movement beyond the Pamunkey should be obtained, the general would like to have the patrols push their investigations across that river.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

FRED. T. LOCKE,

Assistant Adjutant-General.


HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC,
Camp Lincoln, June 22, 1862.

Brigadier General S. WILLIAMS,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

GENERAL: In reply to the circular of June 19 I have the honor to state that the following acting signal officers have been exposed under fire while in the discharge of their duties during the present campaign:

At the siege of Yorktown: First Lieutenant William S. Stryker, Twelfth Virginia Volunteers; First Lieutenant William B. Roe, Sixteenth Michigan Volunteers; First Lieutenant N. Daniels, Third Wisconsin Volunteers; First Lieutenant James S. Hall, Fifty-third Pennsylvania Volunteers; First Lieutenant Charles S. Kendall, First Massachusetts Volunteers; Second Lieutenant Frederick W. Owen, Thirty-eighth New York Volunteers; Second Lieutenant Daniel S. Tompkins, Fifth Michigan Volunteers; Second Lieutenant Charles W. Keen, Twenty-sixth Pennsylvania Volunteers; Second Lieutenant W. G. McCreary, One hundred and second Pennsylvania Volunteers; Second Lieutenant George J. Clark, Sixty-second New York Volunteers; Second Lieutenant Charles H. Carey, Third Michigan Volunteers; Second Lieutenant Alexander M. Wright, Third Pennsylvania Cavalry; Second Lieutenant F. W. Butler, Fifth New Hampshire Volunteers; Second Lieutenant Israel Thickstun, Eighty-third Pennsylvania Volunteers; Second Lieutenant A. B. Jerome, First New Jersey Volunteers; Second Lieutenant E. A. Denicke, Cameron Rifle Regiment New York Volunteers; Second Lieutenant Henry L. Johnson, Fifth Connecticut Volunteers.

At engagement at Lee's Mill: First Lieutenant Charles S. Kendall, First Massachusetts Volunteers; First Lieutenant George H. McNary, Tenth Pennsylvania Reserve Corps; Second Lieutenant Isaac Beckett, Fifty-sixth New York Volunteers; Second Lieutenant W. H. R. Neel, Fifty-fourth [Ninety-Fifth] Pennsylvania Volunteers; Second Lieutenant Frederick Horner, Sixth New Jersey Volunteers; Second Lieutenant N. Herny Camp, Fourth New Jersey Volunteers; Second Lieutenant Charles T. Dwight, First Excelsior Regiment New York Volunteers.

At battle of Williamsburg: First Lieutenant B. F. Fisher, Third Pennsylvania Reserve Corps; First Lieutenant Charles Herzog, [Forty-first] Regiment De Kalb New York Volunteers; First Lieutenant Joseph Gloskosky, Twenty-ninth New York Volunteers; Second Lieutenant F. W. Maston, Fortieth Pennsylvania Volunteers; Second Lieutenant William H. R. Neel, Fifty-fourth [Ninety-fifth] Pennsylvania Volunteers.


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