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Page 296 OPERATIONS IN SE. VA. AND N. C. Chapter LII.

GENERAL ORDERS, HEADQUARTERS TENTH ARMY CORPS,


Numbers 10. In the Field, near Hatcher's, va., June 21, 1864.

The following assignment of batteries so the respective divisions of this command is hereby announced: First Division-Battery M, First U. S. Artillery; Battery C, Third Rhode Island Artillery; Fifth Independent New Jersey Battery; First Independent Connecticut Battery. Second Division-Battery D, Fourth U. S. Artillery; Light Company E, Third U. S. Artillery; Fourth Independent New Jersey Battery; Battery D, First U. S. Artillery. Third Division-Third-third Independent New York Battery.

By order of Brigadier General W. T. H. Brooks:

ED. W. SMITH,

Lieutenant-Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.


SPECIAL ORDERS, HEADQUARTERS TENTH ARMY CORPS,

Numbers 257. In the Field, June 21, 1864.

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3. The following disposition will be made of the forces in the line of defenses: Brigadier-General Terry, commanding First Division, will occupy the line from the extreme right to battery Numbers 4 with two brigades, holding one brigade in reserve. From Battery Numbers 4. inclusive to a point on the right of the signal station the line will be held by a brigade of General Turner's division, with another brigade of the same division in reserve. On the left of the signal station four regiments of General Terry's division will be posted, covering the defile. The remaining brigade of General Turner's division will occupy the extreme left of the line.

By order of Brigadier General W. T. H. Brooks:

ED. W. SMITH,

Lieutenant-Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.


HEADQUARTERS TENTH ARMY CORPS,
In the Field, june 21, 1864-2.45 p. m.

Brigadier General A. H. TERRY,

Commanding First Division:

GENERAL: Have the reserve brigade ready to move to General Foster at a moment's notice.

By order of Brigadier-General Brooks:

ED. W. SMITH,

Assistant Adjutant-General.


SPECIAL ORDERS, HDQRS. FIRST DIV., TENTH ARMY CORPS,

Numbers 52. In the Field, Va., June 21, 1864.

I. The Third Brigade, Second Division, Tenth Army Corps, and that portion of the Second Brigade of that division now within the limits of this command, will report without delay to Brigadier General John W. Turner, commanding Second Division. That portion of these troops now on the picket-line will not depart until regularly relieved by the new pickets.


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