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Page 514 OPERATIONS IN SE. VA. AND N. C. Chapter LIV.


HEADQUARTERS TENTH ARMY CORPS,
November 4, 1864.

GENERAL: The commanding general directs that you have your troops under arms at 4.30 a. m. to-morrow, and that they remain so until after daylight unless otherwise ordered.

Very respectfully,

WM. P. SHREVE,

Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.


HEADQUARTERS TENTH ARMY CORPS,
Before Richmond, Va., November 4, 1864.

DIVISION COMMANDERS TENTH ARMY CORPS:

By direction of the brevet major-general commanding the Army of the James, the undersigned hereby assumes temporary command of the Tenth Army Corps.

A. AMES,

Brigadier-General.


HEADQUARTERS TENTH ARMY CORPS,
Before Richmond, Va., November 4, 1864.

DIVISION COMMANDERS TENTH ARMY CORPS:

You will please have your commands in readiness to be placed under arms at a minute's notice during the ensuing twenty-four hours.

By order of Brigadier-General Ames:

CHAS. A. CARLETON,

Captain and Assistant Adjutant-General.

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


Numbers 38. In the Field, Va., November 4, 1864.

1. The general commanding having been directed to assume temporary command of the Tenth Army Corps, in pursuance of instructions from headquarters Army of the James, Colonel A. C. Voris, Sixty-seventh Ohio Volunteers, is hereby assigned to the temporary command of the First Division, Tenth Army Corps.

2. Brigade commanders will have their command s in readiness to be placed under arms at a moment's notice during the next twenty-four hours.

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By order of Brigadier General A. Ames:

CHAS. A. CARLETON,

Captain and Assistant Adjutant-General.

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


Numbers 38. Before richmond, Va., November 4, 1864.

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3. In accordance with instructions from headquarters Tenth Army Corps the undersigned hereby assumes temporary command of the First Division, Tenth Army Corps.

A. C. VARIS,

Colonel Sixty-seventh Ohio Volunteers.


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