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1187 Series I Volume XLVI-III Serial 97 - Appomattox Campaign Part III

Page 1187 Chapter LVIII. CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.-UNION.

Brigadier General Adrian R. Root, commanding-Ninety-fourth New York Volunteers, One hundred and forty-second Pennsylvania Volunteers, Ninety-fifth New York Volunteers, Eighty-eighth Pennsylvania Volunteers, One hundred and twenty-first Pennsylvania Volunteers, Fifty-sixth Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteers, One hundred and forty-seventh New York Volunteers.

Artillery Brigade, Byt. Brigadier General C. S. Wainwright commanding: Battery B, Fourth U. S. Artillery, Byt. Captain James Stewart commanding; Battery H, First New York Artillery, Byt. Major C. E. Mink commanding; Battery B, First New York Artillery, Captain R. E. Rogers commanding; Battery D, First New York Artillery, Captain J. B. Hazelton commanding; Batteries D and G, Fifth U. S. Artillery, First Lieutenant J. B. Rawles commanding.

I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

CHAS GRIFFIN,

Brevet Major-General, Commanding.


HEADQUARTERS FIFTH ARMY CORPS,
May 21, 1865.

Colonel GEORGE D. RUGGLES,

Assistant Adjutant-General, Army of the Potomac:

COLONEL: I have the honor to forward the names of the regimental commanders in the Third Division of this corps:

First Brigade: Sixth Wisconsin Veteran Volunteers, Byt. Lieutenant Colonel D. B. Dailey commanding; Seventh Wisconsin Veteran Volunteers, Lieutenant Colonel H. Richardson commanding; Ninety-first New York veteran Volunteers, Lieutenant Colonel W. J. Denslow commanding; First Battalion [New York] Sharpshooters, Captain Clinton Perry commanding.

Second Brigade: Eleventh Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteers, Byt. Brigadier General R. Coulter commanding; Ninety-seventh New York Volunteers, Colonel J. P. Spofford commanding; One hundred and fourth New York Volunteers, Lieutenant Colonel J. R. Strang commanding; sixteenth Maine Volunteers, Major A. R. Small commanding; Thirty-ninth Massachusetts Volunteers, Captain F. R. Kinsley commanding; One hundred and seventh Pennsylvania Volunteers, Colonel T. f. McCoy commanding.

Third Brigade: Ninety-fourth New York Volunteers, Lieutenant Colonel S. A. Moffett commanding; One hundred and forty-second Pennsylvania Volunteers, Lieutenant Colonel H. N. Warren commanding; Ninety-fifth New York Volunteers, lieut. Colonel J. Creney commanding; Eighty-eighth Pennsylvania Volunteers, Lieutenant Colonel G. Harney commanding; One hundred and twenty-first Pennsylvania Volunteers, Lieutenant Colonel J. S. Warner commanding; Fifty-sixth Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteers, Major H. A. Laycock commanding; One hundred and forty-seventh New York Volunteers, Colonel F. C. Miller commanding.

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

CHAS GRIFFIN,

Brevet Major-General of Volunteers, Commanding.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS FIFTH ARMY CORPS, Numbers 59.
May 21, 1865.

The corps will pass in review on the 23rd instant, right, in front: First Division, Second Division, Third Division, artillery, ambulances, according to General Orders, Numbers 27.


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