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358 Series I Volume XL-III Serial 82 - Richmond, Petersburg Part III

Page 358 OPERATIONS IN SE. VA. AND N. C. Chapter LII.

JULY 20, 1864.

Captain S. C. EATON, Deep Bottom:

Your dispatch received. You will return at once with all the engineer officers and troops under your command to the camp of the regiment near these headquarters and report to Major Walker, commanding. Show this order to General Foster.

G. WEITZEL,

Brigadier-General and Acting Chief of Staff.

JULY 20, 1864.

Lieutenant W. H. BALDWIN,

Fort Powhatan:

Don't raise that tower any higher. They will have to raise one at City Point to reach yours.

G. WEITZEL,

Brigadier-General.

BERMUDA, July 20, 1864.

Major DAVIS,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

The following regiments-One hundred and sixty-second New York Volunteers and One hundred and seventy-third New York Volunteers, also detachment of the One hundred and sixtieth New York Volunteers-have arrived and have been placed in camp in compliance with instructions. They number about 788 men.

By order of Lieutenant-Colonel Fuller:

W. S. HOW,

Captain and Assistant Quartermaster.

BERMUDA, July 20, 1864.

Major R. S. DAVIS,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

MAJOR: I have the honor to report the arrival of the Ninth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers, numbering 294 men, under command of Colonel T. W. Cahill, of the Third [First] Brigade, First [Second] Division, Nineteenth Army Corps.

By command of C. E. Fuller, quartermaster:

Very respectfully,

W. S. HOW.

BERMUDA, July 20, 1864.

(Received 11.40 a. m.)

Major DAVIS,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

MAJOR: I have the honor to report the arrival of the Twenty-sixth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, numbering 600 men, under command of Colonel A. B. Farr, and are from the Second [First] Brigade, Second Division, Nineteenth Army Corps.

By order of Lieutenant-Colonel Fuller:

Very respectfully,

W. S. HOW,

Captain and Assistant Quartermaster.


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