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395 Series I Volume XLV-II Serial 94 - Franklin - Nashville Part II

Page 395 Chapter LVII. CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.-UNION.


HEADQUARTERS FOURTH ARMY CORPS,
Sugar Creek, December 28, 1864-6.30 a.m.

Order of the day for the Fourth Corps for to-day:

The corps will move for the Tennessee River to-day, following the cavalry-General Elliott will lead; General Beatty will follow; then General Kimball. General Elliott will start at 8 a.m. The trains and artillery will move in the usual order.

By order of Brigadier-General Wood:

J. S. FULLERTON,

Lieutenant-Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.

COLUMBIA, TENN., December 28, 1864.

Major General GEORGE H. THOMAS,

Pulaski, Tenn.:

The trestle bridge will be completed to-morrow, so that the pontoons can be spared, if they are wanted elsewhere.

J. M. SCHOFIELD,

Major-General.


HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND,
Pulaski, December 28, 1864-10 p.m.

Major General JOHN M. SCHOFIELD,

Commanding Twenty-third Army Corps, Columbia:

Your dispatch of this date is received. The major-general commanding directs that you have the pontoon bridges taken up as soon as the trestle bridge is completed, and instruct the commanding officer in charge of the pontoon train to fully prepare his command to move as soon as he receives orders from these headquarters-that is, to provide himself with rations and forage.

ROBT. H. RAMSEY,

Assistant Adjutant-General.


SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. ARMY OF THE OHIO,

Numbers 190.
Columbia, Tenn., December 28, 1864.

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VI. Lieutenant Colonel G. W. Schofield, chief of artillery, Department of the Ohio, will proceed to Louisville, Ky., and establish his office in that city until further orders.

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IX. Captain Charles E. Morgan, One hundred and third Ohio Infantry is hereby announced as acting ordnance officer of the Twenty-third Army Corps.

By command of Major-General Schofield:

J. A. CAMPBELL,

Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.


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