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Page 398 MD., E. N. C., PA., VA., EXCEPT S. W., & W. VA. Chapter LXIII.

Third Brigade, Brigadier-General William commanding: Seventh Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, Colonel Irwin commanding; Eighth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, Colonel Emley commanding; Tenth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, Colonel Meredith commanding; Twentieth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, Colonel Gray commanding.

Fourth Brigade, Colonel Dixon S. Miles, Second U. S. Infantry, commanding: Second and Third U. S. Infantry, Major Sherperd commanding; Ninth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, Colonel Longnecker commanding; Thirteenth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, Colonel Rowley commanding; Sixteenth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, Colonel Ziegle commanding.

Fifth Brigade, Brigadier-General Negley commanding: Fourteenth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, Colonel Johnston commanding; Fifteenth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, Colonel Oakford commanding.

Every officer must exert himself to put his individual command in the most effective condition, and keep it so for instant and rapid movement. Baggage must be reduced to the utmost.

II. Late inspections have detected culpable neglects, which the commanding general relies upon the commanding officers to whom they were pointed out to correct. If a regiment be not properly instructed properly supplied, and otherwise prepared so as to give assurance of efficiency, it will not be permitted to go to the front.

By order of Major-General Patterson:

F. J. PORTER,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

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SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF PENNSYLVANIA, Numbers 67.
Chambersburg, Pa., June 11, 1861.

Asst. Surg. William A. Hammond, Medical Department, is medical purveyor at these headquarters. He will report for duty to Surg. C. S. Tripler, medical director.

By order of Major-General Patterson:

F. J. PORTER,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

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SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF PENNSYLVANIA, Numbers 66.
Chambersburg, Pa., June 11, 1861.

I. Bvt. Major General George Cadwalader, Pennsylvania Volunteers, is assigned to the command of the First Division, consisting of the First, Third, and Fourth Brigades. Major General William H. Keim, Pennsylvania Volunteers, as assigned to the command of the Second Division, consisting of the Second and Fifth Brigades.

II. The First Wisconsin Regiment, Colonel, John C. Starkwether, and the Eleventh Pennsylvania Regiment are assigned to the Fifth Brigade.

III. General Cadwalader will immediately join his command, in the vicinity of Greencastle, Pa.

By order of Major-General Patterson:

F. J. PORTER,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

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