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

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Second Army Corps, to protect these stores. This guard will be relieved at the earliest practicable moment by one from the Fifth Army Corps, and will thereupon proceed to Burkeville.

4. Such empty wagons in each corps as may be necessary for the transportation of sick and wounded will be turned over to the chief medical officer of the corps for this purpose; the remaining empty wagons will be turned over to the chief quartermaster Army of the Potomac for the transportation of captured and surrendered ordnance stores.

5. The commanding officer of the Fifth Army Corps will furnish, on the requisition of the chief ordnance officer Army of the Potomac, the fatigue parties necessary to load his wagons with the captured and surrendered ordnance stores. He will also furnish to the chief quartermaster Army of the Potomac, a suitable guard to protect the train till its arrival at Burkewille.

6. The Sixth Army Corps will march at 6 a. m. to-morrow, taking the road direct to Farmville and thence to Burkewille.

7. The Second Army Corps will follow the Sixth Army Corps, moving from camp at 7.30 a. m. to-morrow, and taking the road via Farmville and thence to Burkeville.

By command of Major-General Meade:

GEO. D. RUGGLES,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, Numbers 14.
April 10, 1865.

I. The guard ordered to be furnished from the Second Army corps, by paragraph 3, General Orders, Numbers 13, current series, from these headquarters, for the protection of subsistence stores, will not be relieved, as therein directed, by a guard from the Fifth Army Corps. When the necessity for it shall no longer exist it will rejoin the Second Army Corps at Burkeville or elsewhere.

II. Paragraph 5, General Orders, Numbers 13, current series, from these headquarters, is rescinded. The commanding officer of the Second Army Corps will leave, at its present camp, a brigade of the corps, from which will be detailed, on the requisition of the chief ordnance officer Army of the Potomac, the fatigue parties necessary to load his wagons with the ordnance stores captured from and surrendered by the enemy. When this shall have been done the brigade will accompany the train, as guard, to Burkeville. It will then rejoin the Second Army Corps.

By command of Major-General Meade:

GEO. D. RUGGLES,

Assistant Adjutant-General.


SPECIAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, Numbers 91.
April 10, 1`865.

I. All the troops belonging to the Army of the Potomac, now at Farmville, excepting the brigade of the Ninth Corps left to hold, the town, will leave at once with the general supply train for Burkeville.

By command of Major-General Meade:

GEO. D. RUGGLES,
Assistant Adjutant-General.


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