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

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HDQRS. DEPT. OF VIRGINIA AND NORTH CAROLINA,
In the Field, July 23, 1864.

Captain CRUSO,

Bermuda Hudred:

You need not report in person. Just resume the same position with your company which you occupied before starting for Jones' Neck.

Brigadier-General and Chief Engineer.


HDQRS. DEPT. OF VIRGINIA AND NORTH CAROLINA,
Captain CRUSO,

Pontoon Train Numbers 17, Jones' Neck:

You will return to your camp with your men at once.

JAMES W. LYON,

Captain and Assistant Engineer, Commanding Pontoon Train.


SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPT. OF VA. AND N. C.


Numbers 200.
In the Field, Va., July 23, 1864.

I. Companies I and M, Second Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, now at Portsmouth, Va., will proceed without delay to new Berne, N. C., and report to the commanding officer of that regiment. Quartermaster's department will furnish transportation.

II. That part of the Third Brigade, First Division, Nineteenth Army Corps, Colonel Currie commanding, which has arrived, will proceed at once and report to Brigadier General R. S. Foster, at Deep Bottom.

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By command of Major-General Butler:

R. S. DAVIS,
Assistant Adjutant-General.


HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC,

July 23, 1864-11.10 p.m.

Colonel ABBOT:

If the six siege guns have not yet been sent up to General Burnside's works you had better send them up as soon as practicable.

H. J. HUNT,

Brigadier-General.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS TENTH ARMY CORPS,


Numbers 17.
In the Field, near Hatcher's, Va., July 23, 1864.

In obedience to Special Orders, Numbers 64, current series, from headquarters Armies of the United States, the undersigned hereby assumes command of the Tenth Army Corps. The following named officers are announced as constituting the personal staff: Captain J. C. Briscoe, Fortieth New York Volunteers, aide-de-camp; Captain Clayton McMich-

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