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147 Series I Volume XXXVII-II Serial 71 - Monocacy Part II

Page 147 Chapter XLIX. CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. -UNION.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS, Numbers 1.
Baltimore, July 9, 1864.

In the absence of the major-general commanding I hereby assume command of all the forces in the city and fortifications of Baltimore.

W. W. MORRIS,

Brevet Brigadier-General, U. S. Army, Commanding.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS, Numbers 2.
Baltimore, July 9, 1864.

Brigadier General H. H. Lockwood, having tendered his services, is hereby assigned to the command of all the forces called out by the mayor and officered by the Union Leagues of Baltimore .

By command of Brevet Brigadier-General Morris:

J. GALES RAMSAY,

Lieutenant and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.


HDQRS. MIDDLE DEPT., EIGHTH ARMY CORPS, Baltimore, July 9, 1864.

Brigadier General J. R. KENLY:

GENERAL: I have the honor to inform you that Colonel Woolley, provost-marshal, has been instructed to hold Company D, One hundred and fifty-ninth Ohio National Guard, in readiness at the Soldiers' Rest, to comply with your orders. Colonel Jeffries will also give instructions to turn over to you 100 men recruited for Alexander's heavy artillery. They can be used at Fort Numbers 1 at the guns. He has also 200 men of the new recruits for 100-days' regiment (Twelfth Maryland); he will turn them over to you, and you will distributed them among the other companies of your command, thereby strengthening them. I presume you have surplus muskets enough; if not, make requisition at once. The company from Camp Carroll had better be posted in Forts Numbers 2 to 7 1\2. Your command, by using the recruits named, will be increased over 300 men. Please make a judicious distribution of them. Please make a report of your action as early as possible.

By command of Major-General Wallace:

SAML. B. LAWRENCE,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

HDQRS. THIRD SEPARATE Brigadier, EIGHTH ARMY CORPS, Baltimore, July 9, 1864.

Colonel L. J. JACKSON,

Commanding 159th Ohio National Guard, Baltimore:

The brigadier-general commanding directs that you send one company of the command at Camp Bradford to the first toll-gate on the Resiterstown road, and to keep up a communication with them from


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