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573 Series I Volume XLII-III Serial 89 - Richmond-Fort Fisher Part III

Page 573 Chapter LIV. CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.-UNION.


SPECIAL ORDERS,
WAR DEPT., ADJT. GENERAL'S OFFICE,

Numbers 391. Washington, November 9, 1864.

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12. So much of Special Orders, Numbers 389, November 8, 1864, from this office, as directed Major Charles S. Stewart, Corps of Engineers, to repair to the headquarters of Lieutenant-General Grent and report to him for duty is hereby revoked.

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By order of the Secretary of War:

E. D. TOWNSEND,

Assistant Adjutant-General.


HDQRS. ENGINEER Brigadier AND DEFENSES OF CITY POINT,
November 9, 1864.

Lieutenant C. E. HARGOUS:

Commanding Provisional Camp:

SIR: If you have completed your work at Brodway Landing to Colonel Abbot's satisfaction, you will march your company to the neighborhood of Old Court-House and encamp on the ground lately vacated by the Eighth Delaware Battalion. The,ms will be sent you in the morning for your tents and company property. Three teams will report to you at 8 a. m.

By order of Brigadier Gem. H. W. Benham:

CHANNING CLAPP,

Assistant Adjutant-General.


HEADQUARTERS SECOND ARMY CORPS,
November 9, 1864.

General WILLIAMS:

There has been no change in the disposition of my troops since last report.

WINF'D S. HANCOCK.

Major-General.


HEADQUARTERS SECOND ARMY CORPS,
November 9, 1864. (Received 7.35 p. m.)

General HUMPHREYS,

Chief of Staff:

I desire to call your attention to the extract from the Richmond papers signal Charles H, Day, One hundred and eighty-eight New York Volunteers, on eight page of to-day's Herald. Two of the men captured on my picket-line by Mahone the other night have already arrived at their home in New York State, paroled by the enemy. Letters have been received from them which I have called for. The firing to-night was brought on, General Mott reports, by the enemy firing on the relief to this picket-line as it was going round. It was quite light in the early part of the evening.

WINF'D S. HANCOCK

Major-General.


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