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225 Series I Volume XLIII-II Serial 91 - Shenandoah Valley Campaign Part II

Page 225 Chapter LV. CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.-UNION.


HEADQUARTERS NORTHERN DEPARTMENT,
Columbus, Ohio, September 30, 1864 - 1.15 p. m.

Colonel THOMAS,

Commanding, Galipolis, Ohio:

If the telegraph line is cut between you and General Sullivan, at Charleston, you will move with your regiment toward Charleston. Unless you hear of rebels threatening Gallipolis, you will send the gunboats up the Kanawha River, and keep these headquarters well advised.

By command of Major-General Heintzelman:

C. H. POTTER,

Assistant Adjutant-General.


HEADQUARTERS NORTHERN DEPARTMENT,
Columbus, Ohio, September 30, 1864 - 1.15 p. m.

Colonel THOMAS,

Commanding, Gallipolis, Ohio:

If the troops ordered to Grafton have not left, you need not send them. Telegraph immediately whether they have left our not.

C. H. POTTER,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

WASHINGTON, D. C., September 30, 1864.

Major-General WALLACE,

Baltimore:

The Secretary of War directs that you send another regiment to General Stevenson at Harper's Ferry.

H. W. HALLECK,

Major-General and Chief of Staff.


SPECIAL ORDERS,
WAR DEPT., ADJT. GENERAL'S OFFICE, No. 325. Washington, September 30, 1864.

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71. Brigadier General Fitz Henry Warren, U. S. Volunteers, having completed the duties to which he was assigned by Special Orders, No. 276, August 20, 1864, from this office, will report in person without delay, to the commanding general Department of the East, for assignment to such duty as he is able to perform.

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By order of the Secretary of War:

E. D. TOWNSEND,
Assistant Adjutant-General.


HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE EAST,

New York City, September 30, 1864.

Honorable E. M. STANTON,

Secretary of War:

SIR: In pursuance of your instructions of the 20th instant, I left New York on the ensuing morning and repaired to the city of Detroit, stopping on my way at Buffalo, and on my return at the Bass Islands,

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