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

Page 958 N. AND SE.VA., W.VA., MD., AND PA. Chapter LVIII.

in his neighborhood. He says Colonel Gobin, Forty-seventh Pennsylvania, near Charlestown, heard the same reports from citizens. He thinks that there is truth in the report.

W. H. EMORY,

Brevet Major-General, Commanding.


HEADQUARTERS NINETEENTH ARMY CORPS,
Camp Sheridan, Va., March 13, 1865.

Brevet Brigadier-General DAVIS,

Commanding at Summit Point:

GENERAL: A cavalry force has been sent to Berryville, to move according to circumstances. Inform only your commanding officers of this fact.

DUNCAN S. WALKER,

Assistant Adjutant-General.


HEADQUARTERS MIDDLE MILITARY DIVISION,
March 13, 1865.

Brevet Major-General TORBERT,

Chief of Cavalry:

GENERAL: The major-general commanding desires you to send a scouting party to Woodstock to-morrow morning. There are two scouts there who have been several days at Woodstock, who will return with party you send out with such information as they may have collected. He desires also that you send out a scouting party to-night down the Millwood road with instructions to break up a party conscripting between White Post and the river. The following names have been furnished the general: William Kernford, sr., William Kernsford, jr., Franklin Kernford, and James Ware, all living between White Post and the river. If any of these people can be found the general wishes them arrested. They are conscripting in Berryville and along the Opequon.

I am, general, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

C. H. MORGAN,

Brevet Brigadier-General of Volunteers, &c.


HEADQUARTERS MIDDLE MILITARY DIVISION,
March 13, 1865.

Brevet Major-General TORBERT,

Chief of Cavalry:

A letter was received at the picket-line to-day stating that a raid was contemplated on the station at Summit Point. If this is true there must be a considerable force of the enemy perhaps this side of the river, and the party going to Millwood should be governed accordingly. The general wished them to get what information they can concerning Mosby.

C. H. MORGAN,

Brevet Brigadier-General of Volunteers, &c.


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