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

Page 755 Chapter LV. CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.-UNION.

POINT OF ROCKS, December 7, 1864.

Brigadier-General STEVENSON:

I have no positive information relative to Mosby. Captain Keyes was in Loudoun County all last night with his entire mounted command, but gained no important information.

B. SPENCE,

Captain, Commanding.


SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF WEST VIRGINIA, No. 232.
Camp Russell, Va., December 7, 1864.

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II. Battery A, First Maryland Artillery, will report without delay to Point of Rocks, Md., and relieve Battery G, First Pennsylvania Artillery.

On being relieved, Battery G, First Pennsylvania Artillery, will take post at Harper's Ferry, W. Va., and the commanding officer will make immediate requisition for the necessary ordnance and ordnance stores for a four-gun battery (Napoleon).

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By command of Major-General Crook:

WM. McKINLEY, JR.,
Captain and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

MARTINSBURG, December 7, 1864.

Captain R. P. KENNEDY,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

DEAR SIR: I started for Duffield's yesterday to locate block-house, which has some lumber already on the ground. Was on the train during both accidents, and escaped both times easily, I think, with lame back. I will try it over to-day. Pretty lame, but can walk about.

Very respectfully,

S. F. SHAW,

Captain, Fifteenth West Virginia Infty., and Acting Chief Engineer.


SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. FORCES WEST OF HANCOCK, MD., No. 52.
Cumberland, Md., December 7, 1864.

I. In pursuance of instructions from the major-general commanding Middle Military Division, Colonel George R. Latham, Fifth West Virginia Cavalry, is placed in close arrest, and will confine himself to his quartermaster preparatory to his trial by general court-martial.

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By order of Brevet Major-General Kelley:

T. MELVIN,
Assistant Adjutant-General.


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