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1183 Series I Volume XLVI-I Serial 95 - Appomattox Campaign Part I

Page 1183 Chapter LVIII. THE APPOMATTOX CAMPAIGN.

Turner's division in the advance; marched via Evergreen Station and Pamplin's. Bivouacked that night two miles west of Prospect Station. April 18, this division, in advance, marched via Farmville, encamping near Bush Creek. April 19, General Turner's division in advance, marched via Burkeville, encamping about one mile beyond that place. April 20 and 21, encamped near Burkeville. April 22, moved at 5.30 a.m., this division in the advance; moved via Jetersville Station to within two miles of Amelia Court-House. April 23, moved at 5.30 a.m., General Turner's division in advance; moved via Amelia Court-House to Dry Creek, encamping for the night. April 24, moved at 5 a.m., this division in advance; bivouacked outside Manchester at 1 p.m. April 25, marched through Richmond to the present camping ground, on the intermediate line of works on the north side of Richmond.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

R. S. FOSTER,

Brigadier-General, Commanding.

Lieutenant Colonel EDWARD MOALE,

Assistant Adjutant-General, Twenty-fourth Army Corps.

ADDENDA.


HDQRS. FIRST DIVISION, TWENTY-FOURTH ARMY CORPS,
Near Richmond, Va., June 8, 1865.

Lieutenant Colonel EDWARD MOALE,

Assistant Adjutant-General, Twenty-fourth Army Corps:

COLONEL: I have the honor to transmit the following list of regiments of this division who participated in the charge on Fort Gregg, April 2, 1865, all of them displaying great gallantry: First Brigade-Thirty-ninth Illinois Volunteers, Captain H. A. Plympton; Sixty-second Ohio Volunteers, Lieutenant Colonel H. R. West; Sixty-seventh Ohio Volunteers, Colonel A. C. Voris; One hundred and ninety-ninth Pennsylvania Volunteers, Colonel J. C. Briscoe. Third Brigade-Tenth Connecticut Volunteers, Lieutenant Colonel E. D. S. Goodyear; Eleventh Maine Volunteers, Colonel J. A. Hill; One hundredth New York Volunteers, Major J. H. Dandy, killed. Fourth Brigade-Eighty-ninth New York Volunteers, Major F. W. Tremain, killed; One hundred and fifty-eighth New York Volunteers, Major Hyron Kalt. The names of commanding officers given are those of the officers who were in command on that day, and the rank held by them at that date.

I am, very respectfully,

THOS. O. OSBORN,

Brigadier-General, Commanding.


HDQRS. FIRST DIVISION, TWENTY-FOURTH ARMY CORPS,
In the Field, Va., April 11, 1865.

Lieutenant Colonel EDWARD MOALE,

Assistant Adjutant-General, Twenty-fourth Army Corps:

COLONEL: The following-named officers of the First Division, Twenty-fourth Army Corps, are earnestly recommended for conspicuously gallant and meritorious conduct during the active operations of the past fifteen days:

Colonel Thomas O. Osborn, Thirty-ninth Illinois Volunteers, commanding First Brigade, at Fort Gregg, Rice's Station, and Appomattox Court-House.


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