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Page 186 N. AND SE. VA., W. VA., MD., AND PA. Chapter LVIII.


HEADQUARTERS NINTH ARMY CORPS,
March 26, 1865.

Bvt. Brigadier General J. C. TIDBALL,

Commanding Artillery Brigade, Ninth Army Corps:

GENERAL: The major-general commanding directs that you have your troops up at 4 o'clock to-morrow morning ready for any emergency that may arise.

I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

JNO. C. YOUNGMAN,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

(Same to division commanders.)


HEADQUARTERS FIRST DIVISION, NINTH CORPS,
March 26, 1865.

Lieutenant-Colonel LYDIG,

Assistant Adjutant-General, Ninth Corps:

COLONEL: I have the honor to send you the colors of the Twenty-sixth South Carolina and Fifth North Carolina Regiments, captured yesterday by the Fourteenth New York Heavy Artillery and Fifty-seventh Massachusetts Infantry, respectively making eight flags captured by this division. I will send names of captors to-day.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

O. B. WILLCOX,

Brevet Major-General, Commanding.


HEADQUARTERS FIRST DIVISION, NINTH ARMY CORPS,
March 26, 1865.

Adjt. General JOHN ROBERTSON,

Detroit, Mich.:

We fairly have wiped out the Mine affair. My division captured 8 flags and 953 prisoners. The Second, Seventeenth, and Twentieth Michigan Infantry fought with their accustomed valor.

Very respectfully,

O. B. WILLCOX,

Brevet Major-General, Commanding.


HEADQUARTERS CAVALRY DIVISION,
March 26, 1865.

General WEBB,

Headquarters Army of the Potomac:

Nothing of moment has occurred on my line. Scouting [parties] sent out before daylight this a. m. have returned, seeing no indication of presence of an enemy. How long is the brigade sent to General Parke yesterday to remain there?

H. E. DAVIES, JR.,

Brigadier-General.


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