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taken to impose upon them all fatigue duty that may be required, and in the event of a movement to see that they are so placed as to prevent them again strangling.

By order of Major-General Humphreys:

September CARNCROSS,

Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.

CIRCULAR.] HEADQUARTERS THIRD DIVISION, SECOND CORPS,

December 8, 1864-11.45 p. m.

The command will move at daybreak to-morrow morning. The following will be the order of march: First, Third Brigade, Colonel McAllister; second, ambulance train; third, First Brigade, General De Brigade, General Pierce.

By command of Brevet Major-General Mott:

CHAS. F. MOORE,

Aide-de-Camp and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

CONFIDENTIAL.] HEADQUARTERS SECOND ARMY CORPS,

December 8, 1864.

Brigadier General T. SEYMOUR,

Commanding Third Division, Sixth Corps:

GENERAL: The commanding general desires me to say that you must retain a garrison of 200 men in Fort Dushane, in addition to the other garrisons, when the reserves of the army move, and you will have them properly provisioned and supplied accordingly.

I am, general, very respectfully, you obedient servant,

September CARNCROSS,

Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.


HEADQUARTERS THIRD DIVISION, SIXTH ARMY CORPS,
December 8, 1864.

Major S. CARNCROSS,

Assistant Adjutant-General, Second Corps:

MAJOR: In compliance with communication from headquarters Second Army Corps of this date I have the honor to submit the following list of regiments and names of brigade commanders in this division:

First Brigade, commanded by Colonel Williams S. Truex: Fourteenth New Jersey Volunteers. One hundred and sixth New York Volunteers, battalion One hundred and fifty-first New York Volunteers, Tenth Vermont Volunteers, battalion Eighty-seventh Pennsylvania Volunteers.

Second Brigade, commanded by Colonel J. W. Keifer: One hundred and tenth Ohio Volunteers, One hundred and twenty-second Ohio Volunteers, One hundred and twenty-sixth Ohio Volunteers, One hundred and thirty-eighth Pennsylvania Volunteers, battalion Sixty-seventh Pennsylvania Volunteers, Sixth Maryland Volunteers, Ninth New York Heavy Artillery.

I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

T. SEYMOUR,

Brigadier-General.


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