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533 Series I Volume XXXIX-III Serial 79 - Allatoona Part III

Page 533 Chapter LI. CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. -UNION.

X. In accordance with orders from headquarters Military DIVISION of the Mississippi, this army will move to-morrow, as follows:

1. Major-General Osterhaus, commanding Fifteenth Army Corps, will move out his command at 7 a. m., and, taking the direct Cedartown road, will march thereon to Cedartown, Ga.

2. Major General F. P. Blair, commanding Seventeenth Army Corps, will move out his command, at 7 a. m., taking the road to the left, by the asylum, will march thereon to Cedartown, Ga.

The supply trains will follows their respective corps.

The cattle, in charge of Lieutenant Todd, acting commissary of subsistence, will take the left road, following the Seventeenth Corps, and will be properly guarded.

The train of these headquarters will follow the ammunition train of the leading DIVISION of the Fifteenth Corps.

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By order of Major General O. O. Howard:

WM. T. CLARK,

Assistant Adjutant-General.


HDQRS. THIRD DIVISION, FIFTEENTH ARMY CORPS,
Cartersville, Ga., October 31, 1864.

Bvt. Brigadier General GREEN B. RAUM,

Commanding Second Brigade, Resaca, Ga.:

GENERAL: When relieved you will move, with your command, to this place instead of Kingston.

By order of Brigadier General John E. Smith:

S. M. BUDLONG,

Captain and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

GENERAL ORDERS, HDQRS. SEVENTEENTH ARMY CORPS, NO. 19.
Near Cave Spring, Ga., October 31, 1864.

The undersigned reassume command of the Seventeenth Army Corps. To General Mower he extends his thanks for the manner in which he has governed the corps in his absence.

II. Major General Joseph A. Mower, U. S. Volunteers, is assigned to the First DIVISION, and will forthwith assume command.

F. P. BLAIR, JR.,

Major-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS, HDQRS. SEVENTEENTH ARMY CORPS, NO. 269.
Near Cave Spring, Ga., October 31, 1864.

VII. Major General J. A. Mower, commanding First DIVISION, will have the advance to-morrow, and will move his command at 7 o'clock on the road to the left of the asulum and march thereon to Dedartown.

2. The THIRD DIVISION, Brigadier General M. D. Leggett commanding, will follow the First DIVISION.

3. The Fourth DIVISION, Brigadier General Giles A. Smith commanding, will follow the THIRD DIVISION.


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