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Page 412 OPERATIONS IN SE. VA. AND N. C. Chapter LII.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. 2nd DIVISION, 2nd ARMY CORPS,


Numbers 57.
July 23, 1864.

The undersigned resumes command of the division.

JOHN GIBBON,

Major-General of Volunteers.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. 3rd DIVISION, 2nd ARMY CORPS,


Numbers 48.
July 23, 1864.

The brigadier-general commanding division announces his staff as follows:

Major John Hancock, assistant adjutant-general of volunteers, assistant adjutant-general; Captain George W. Johnes, assistant quartermaster, assistant quartermaster; Captain C. M. Robins, commissary of subsistence, commissary of subsistence; Surg. Orpheus Everts, Twentieth Indiana Volunteers, surgeon-in-chief; Major John William, Sixth New Jersey Volunteers, assistant inspector-general; Captain W. W. Braman, Ninety-third New York Volunteers, provost-marshal; Captain E. L. Ford, Ninety-ninth Pennsylvania, ordnance officer; Captain Joseph U. Crawford, Sixth New Jersey Volunteers, engineer officer; First Lieutenant William P. Shreve, Second U. S. Sharpshooters, assistant commissary of musters; First Lieutenant Thomas H. Fisher, Eighth New Jersey Volunteers, aide-de-camp; First William G. Thompson, Sixth New Jersey Volunteers, aide-de-camp; First Lieutenant R. Pancoast, One hundred and tenth Pennsylvania, ambulance officer.

By command of Brigadier-General Mott:

JOHN HANCOCK,

Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.


HEADQUARTERS FIFTH ARMY CORPS,
July 23, 1864.

General S. WILLIAMS,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

I have to report all quiet during the night in my front. The following details were at work on my line last night: Six hundred men from First Division, 400 men from Second Division, 300 men from Fourth Division.

G. K. WARREN,

Major-General.


HEADQUARTERS FIFTH ARMY CORPS,
July 23, 1864.

Brigadier General S. WILLIAMS,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

Everything very quiet in my front during the day. One deserter from Eleventh Alabama was received and forwarded to army headquarters.

G. K. WARREN,

Major-General, Commanding.


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