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296 Series I Volume XLVI-III Serial 97 - Appomattox Campaign Part III

Page 296 N. AND SE. VA., W. VA., MD., AND PA. Chapter LVIII.


HEADQUARTERS SECOND ARMY CORPS,
March 30, 1865 - 6.15 p. m.

Brevet Major-General MILES,

Commanding First Division:

The headquarters of the corps will be at same place as last night. There will be a telegraphic station at General Mott's headquarters which are near line in rear of center, from which any communication may be sent to these headquarters.

By command of Major-General Humphreys:

C. A. WHITTIER,

Assistant Adjutant-General.


HEADQUARTERS FIRST DIVISION, SECOND ARMY CORPS,
March 30, 1865.

Colonel C. C. WHITTIER,

Assistant Adjutant-General, Second Army Corps:

First Division headquarters are established on the dabney's Mill road, on a hill about 250 yards in rear of the line.

Very respectfully,

R. A. BROWN,

Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.


HEADQUARTERS SECOND ARMY CORPS,
[March 30, 1865.]

General [MILES]:

Certainly. Your band can come up. Send order for whisky; don't know how you'll get it. The general wants you to send word by telegraph how much you have corduroyed Dabney's Mill road, and wants you to put every man you can spare on it in the morning.

C. A. WHITTIER,

Assistant Adjutant-General.


HEADQUARTERS FIRST DIVISION, SECOND CORPS,
March 30, 1865.

Lieutenant Colonel C. A. WHITTIER,

Assistant Adjutant-General, Second Army Corps:

COLONEL: Not more than a mile of the Dabney's Mill road is corduroyed, as i have just succeeded in getting tools. There are enough musicians at the hospitals to bring up four or five loads, and I have just got a load up in that way. I can spare 2,000 men to work on the road in the morning.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

N. A. MILES,

Brevet Major-General.

ORDERS.] HDQRS. FIRST DIVISION, SECOND ARMY CORPS,

March 30, 1865 - 2 a. m.

This division will be in complete readiness to move at 6 a. m. this 30th of march.

By command of Brevet Major-General Miles:

RICHD. A . BROWN,

Lieutenant-Colonel and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.


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