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SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPT. OF WEST VIRGINIA, Numbers 86.
Cumberland, Md., April 28, 1864.

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IV. The First Cavalry Division and First Infantry Division of this department will advance to- morrow, April 29, to Bunker Hill and vicinity. Special instructions will be received by the commanding officers of these divisions from Major General Julius Stahel, to whom they will report for orders.

By order of Major- General F. Sigel:

T. MELVIN,
Assistant Adjutant- General.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. 3rd DIV., DEPT, OF W. VA., Numbers 13.
Charleston, W. Va., April 28, 1864.

The following- named regiments, having reported at these headquarters, are assigned as follows: Third Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Reserve Corps. Colonel H. G. Sickel; Fourth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Reserve Corps, Colonel R. H. Woolworth; Eleventh Regiment Virginia Volunteer Infantry, Colonel D. Frost; Fifteenth Regiment Virginia Volunteer Infantry, Lieutenant- Colonel Morris, will from a brigade to be designated as the Third Brigade Infantry, and will be commanded by Colonel H. G. Sickel, Third Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Reserve Corps.

The Thirty- sixth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Colonel H. F. Devol, is assigned to duty in the First Brigade, Colonel R. B. Hayes, Twenty- third Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, commanding. The Fourteenth Regiment Virginia Volunteer Infantry, Colonel D. D. Johnson, is assigned to duty in the Second Brigade, Colonel C. B. White, Twelfth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, commanding. By command of Brigadier General George Crook:

JAMES L. BOTSFORD,

Captain and Assistant Adjutant- General.

CUMBERLAND, April 28, 1864.

Major- General SIGEL,

Martinsburg:

Colonel Moor reports his troops arrived, and asks if he will take Keeper's battery along. Twenty- eighth [Ohio] has no transportation.

T. MELVIN,

Assistant Adjutant- General.

CUMBERLAND, April 28, 1864.

Colonel A. MOOR,

Webster:

The general commanding directs that Keeper's battery remain at Webster until further orders. You will therefore proceed with your regiment to Martinsburg.

T. MELVIN,

Assistant Adjutant- General.


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