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

Page 389 Chapter LII. CORRESPONDENCE,ETC. - UNION.


HEADQUARTERS SIXTH ARMY CORPS.

June 24, 1864-11.10 a.m.

Major-General HUMPHREYS:

Your dispatch received, and I have sent a copy to Colonel Bryan to get the information called for, and with instructions to carry out your suggestion. Colonel Bryan was here over an hour ago. I have not heard from him since. I will send the information as soon as received.

H. G. WRIGHT.

Major-General.

CIRCULAR.] HEADQUARTERS SIXTH CORPS.

June 24, 1864-1.10 p.m.

The following telegram, just received from headquarters Army of the Potomac, is promulgated for the information and guidance of division commanders:

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC .

June 24, 1864-12.40 p.m.

Major-General WRIGHT;

You need not advance beyond your present lines until further orders.

GEO. G. MEADE.

Major-General.

By command of Major-General Wright:

C. H. WHITTELSEY.

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS SIXTH ARMY CORPS.

June 24, 1864-3.40 p.m.

Brigadier General S. WILLIAMS.

Assistant Adjutant-General.

GENERAL: Are the two brigades of the Fifth Corps to be relieved by General Gibbon's division? General Gibbon is now here now here and appears to so understand it.

H. G. WRIGHT.

Major-General.

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC.

June 24, 1864-4.15 p.m.

Major General H. G. WRIGHT,
Commanding Sixth Corps:

It was designed that General Gibbon's division should relieve the two brigades of the Fifth Corps. Please direct the latter to join their proper commands.

S. WILLIAMS.

Assistant Adjutant-General


HEADQUARTERS SIXTH ARMY CORPS.

June 24, 1864-4. 40 p.m.

Major-General HUMPHREYS,
Chief of Staff:

I have moved my headquarters from the Williams house about a quarter of a mile in a northwesterly direction in the woods.

H. G. WRIGHT.

Major-General.


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