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823 Series I Volume XLIV- Serial 92 - Savannah

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2. The First Division, Major General J. A. Mower commanding, will form on South Broad street, with the right resting on Price street.

3. The Third Division will form on Liberty street, with its right resting on Price street.

4. The Fourth Division will form on Jones street, with its right resting on Price street.

5. Major A. C. Waterhouse, chief of artillery, will form the artillery on the open ground on the corner of Price and Liberty streets.

6. The position of the reviewing officer will be at the Exchange, on Bay street.

7. The hour for the formation will be the same as formerly designated.

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By command of Major General F. P. Blair:

C. CADLE, Jr.,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

SPECIAL
HEADQUARTERS THIRD DIVISION,

FIELD ORDERS,
SEVENTEENTH ARMY CORPS,


Numbers 184.
Savannah, GA., December 27, 1864.

I. Colonel R. K. Scott, Sixty-eighth Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry, having been ordered North, Colonel G. F. Wiles, Seventy-eighth Ohio Veteran Volunteers Infantry, is hereby detached from his regiment and assigned to the command of the Second Brigade, this division.

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By order of Brigadier General M. D. Leggett:

J. C. DOUGLASS,

Assistant Adjutant-General.


HEADQUARTERS TWENTIETH CORPS,
Savannah, GA., December 27, 1864.

Brigadier General W. T. WARD,

Commanding Third Division:

GENERAL: The general commanding the corps directs that you hold your division in readiness to cross to-morrow morning to the north side of Savannah River. The movement will not be made, however, until you receive further orders.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

H. W. PERKINS,

Lieutenant-Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.


HDQRS. SIGNAL DETACHMENT, DEPT. OF THE SOUTH,
Hilton Head, S. C., December 27, 1864.

Captain W. L. M. BURGER,

Assistant Adjutant-General, Department of the South:

CAPTAIN: I have the honor to report, for the information of the general commanding, that communication is now open from Hilton Head to Fort Pulaski.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

GEO. A. FISHER,

First Lieutenant, Signal Corps, U. S. Army.


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