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1255 Series I Volume XLVI-III Serial 97 - Appomattox Campaign Part III

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addition to his present duties will command the artillery camp, and see that such deficiencies as he may find to exist in any of the batteries are promptly supplied.

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By command of Lieutenant-General Grant:

E. D. TOWNSEND,

Assistant Adjutant-General.


HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC,
June 5, 1865-8.30 a.m.

Colonel T. S. BOWERS,

Asst. Adjt. General, Hdqrs. Armies of the United States, Washington:

Paragraph 10, Special Orders, Numbers 276, from Adjutant-General's Office orders, all Western regiments in this army, including those from Ohio, to be sent to Louisville, Ky. Was it the design of the lieutenant-general to include those from Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota?

GEO. G. MEADE,

Major-General, Commanding.

Colonel GEORGE D. RUGGLES,

Assistant Adjutant-General.:

The order intended to include all Western troops, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, &c.

T. S. BOWERS,

Assistant Adjutant-General.


SPECIAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, Numbers 142.
June 5, 1865.,
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V. The Sixth Army Corps, Major General H. G. Wright commanding, will pass through Washington, in review on Thursday the 8th instant. The column formed of companies at full distances will move from the foot of Capitol Hill at 9 a.m. and passing through Pennsylvania avenue to Georgetown will return to camp via the Aqueduct Bridge. The chief of staff of the Army of the Potomac will confer with Major-General Augur, commanding Department of Washington, in regard to the arrangements necessary to be made in the city. Such batteries of artillery belonging to this army as have not previously been reviewed will report to the chief of artillery, Sixth Army Corps, for this review.

By command of Major-General Meade:

GEO. D. RUGGLES,

Assistant Adjutant-General.


HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC,
June 5, 1865.

COMMANDING OFFICER FIFTH ARMY CORPS:

GENERAL: The Fourth Ohio, Twentieth Indiana, First, Fifth, Seventh, and Sixteenth Michigan, Sixth, Seventh, and Thirty-sixth Wisconsin, and First Minnesota Volunteers are to be ordered to Louisville, Ky., to report to Major General J. A. Logan, commanding Army of the Tennessee. They will go under the command of Bvt. Brigadier General H. A.


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