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

Page 751 Chapter LVIII. CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.-UNION.


HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF WASHINGTON, TWENTY-SECOND ARMY CORPS, Washington, D. C., April 14, 1865.

General MORGAN,
Chief of Staff, Winchester:

The Eighth Illinois and Sixteenth New York Cavalry will leave for Leesburg to-morrow under command of General Gamble, who will meet General Torbert at Aldier on Sunday. Your dispatch says that all able-bodied men who have no paroles are to be arrested. Is it meant by this that all citizens are to be arrested? Very few of them have any parole.

C. C. AUGUR,

Major-General.


HEADQUARTERS MIDDLE MILITARY DIVISION, April 14, 1865.

Major General C. C. AUGUR,
Commanding Department of Washington:

The general does not care about having the Third Regiment, or any more of the regiments, at Camp Stoneman ordered here at present.

C. H. MORGAN,

Brevet Brigadier-General, &c.


HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF WASHINGTON, TWENTY-SECOND ARMY CORPS, April 14, 1865.

Colonel G. W. GILE,
Commanding First Brigade, Veteran Reserve Corps:

COLONEL: The major-general commanding directs that you detail a commissioned officer and ten enlisted men to accompany train which leaves this city for Baltimore April 15. Shortly after leaving the city the officer in charge will search every car in the train and arret if found, J. Wilkes Booth, and other parties whom you may deem it for the interest of the service to apprehend. At each stooping place or station this search will be made. The party will in each case return to Washington by the train leaving Baltimore first after its arrival there, and carry out the same instructions on the return trip.

Very respectfully, colonel, your most obedient servant,

J. H. TAYLOR,

Chief of Staff and Assistant Adjutant-General.


HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF WASHINGTON, TWENTY-SECOND ARMY CORPS, April 14, 1865.

General HARDIN,
Commanding Division:

Have the battalion of the Thirteenth New York Cavalry on duty with you sent to Fairfax Court-House early to-morrow morning.

Respectfully, yours,

C. C. AUGUR,

Major-General, Commanding.


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