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260 Series I Volume XL-II Serial 81 - Richmond, Petersburg Part II

Page 260 OPERATIONS IN SE. VA. AND N. C. Chapter LII.

GENERAL BUTLER'S HEADQUARTERS,

June 20, 1864.

General BROOKS:

The First Battalion Fourth Massachusetts Cavalry and the First New York Mounted Rifles will remain with the Tenth corps for the present.

J. W. SHAFFER.

GENERAL BUTLER'S HEADQUARTERS,

June 20, 1864-4.30 p. m.

General BROOKS:

The commanding general directs that you let General Foster with his command be at your headquarters at 6 p. m. to-day. The detail of 1,800 100-days' men will not be needed until to-morrow at 5 a. m. Let them be at your headquarters at that hour.

G. WEITZEL,

Brigadier-General and Chief Engineer.

GENERAL BUTLER'S HEADQUARTERS,

June 20, 1864.

General BROOKS:

The commanding general suggests that your order General Marston to make his headquarters at City Point.

J. W. SHAFFER,

Colonel, &c.

GENERAL BROOKS' HEADQUARTERS,

June 20, 1864-5.50 p. m.

Colonel J. W. SHAFFER,

Chief of Staff:

General Ferry has reported; General Marston has not.

W. T. H. BROOKS,

Brigadier-General.


HEADQUARTERS TENTH CORPS,
June 20, 1864.

Colonel SHAFFER,

Chief of Staff:

Can't General Turner and the troops of this corps now under him, on the left, be relieved by the Eighteenth Corps, so that General Tuner may get hold of his division?

W. T. H. BROOKS,

Brigadier-General.


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