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304 Series I Volume XLVI-II Serial 96 - Appomattox Campaign Part II

Page 304 N. AND SE. VA., N. C., W. VA., MD., AND PA. Chapter LVIII.


HEADQUARTERS TWENTY-FOURTH ARMY CORPS, January 30, 1865.

Brigadier General J. R. HAWLEY,
Commanding First Division:

The commanding general directs that you have all your reserves armed and ready to move at a moment's notice.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

EDWARD MOALE,

Captain and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

(Same to Brigadier General Charles Devens, commanding Third Division; Bvt. Brigadier General T. M. Harris, commanding Independent Division; Major C. C. Abell, chief of artillery.)


HEADQUARTERS TWENTY-FOURTH ARMY CORPS, January 30, 1865.

Brigadier General J. R. HAWLEY,
Commanding First Division:

The commanding general directs that the reserves of your command need not be kept under arms any longer.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

EDWARD MOALE,

Captain and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

(Same to Brigadier General Charles Devens, commanding Third Division; Bvt. Brigadier General T. M. Harris, commanding Independent Division; Major C. C. Abell, chief of artillery.)


HEADQUARTERS TWENTY-FOURTH ARMY CORPS, January 30, 1865.

Brigadier General J. R. HAWLEY,
Commanding First Division:

GENERAL: The major-general commanding directs that you at once take steps to have the roads in your front examined, and report to these headquarters the condition and location of the roads, their names, where they lead to, at what point they pass the line of intrenchments, and everything else which may be of service in making a movement.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

EDWARD MOALE,

Captain, Nineteenth U. S. Infantry, Aide-de-Camp and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

(Same to Brigadier General Charles Devens, commanding Third Division, and Bvt. Brigadier General T. M. Harris, commanding Independent Division.)


HEADQUARTERS TWENTY-FOURTH ARMY CORPS, January 30, 1865.

Brigadier General CHARLES DEVENS,
Commanding Third Division:

GENERAL: The major-general commanding directs that you cause the Provisional Brigade attached to your command to be in readiness to move to Jones' Landing to-morrow morning, dependent upon the time of the transportation being in readiness for their embarkation.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

EDWARD MOALE,

Captain and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.


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