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WAR DEPARTMENT,

July 13, 1864.

Brigadier General M. D. HARDIN:

GENERAL: If any cavalry reports at Tennallytown belonging to Lowell's command, send it on to overtake General Wright and report to him.

Respectfully,

J. H. TAYLOR,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

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SPECIAL ORDERS,
WAR DEPT., ADJT. GENERAL'S OFFICE, Numbers 251.
Washington, July 27, 1864.

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40. Major Henry R. Dalton, assistant adjutant-general of volunteers, will report in person without delay to Major-General Wright, U. S. Volunteers, commanding Sixth Army Corps, for assignment to duty.

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47. Captain Daniel D. Wheeler, assistant adjutant-general of volunteers, will report in person without delay to Major-General Wright, U. S. Volunteers, commanding Sixth Army Corps, for assignment to duty with Brigadier-General Upton, U. S. Volunteers.

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By order of the Secretary of War:

E. D. TOWNSEND,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

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WASHINGTON, D. C., July 30, 1864 - 1 p. m.

Major-General HUNTER,

Harper's Ferry:

Wright's and Crook's commands should immediately move toward Emmitsburg. They must makd a night march. Emory will be sent toward Frederich to form a junction with you. If the enemy moves from Chambersburg toward Harrisburg, you will be nearly on his rear; if toward Baltimore, you will have the inner flank.

H. W. HALLECK,

Major-General and Chief of Staff.

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SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPT. OF VA. AND N. CAROLINA, Numbers 223. In the Field, Va., August 15, 1864.

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XIV. Colonel Wright, Tenth U. S. Colored Troops, will report in person early to-morrow morning to Brigadier General C. J. Paine, commanding Third Division, Eighteenth Army Corps, to take command of the Second Brigade of that division.

By command of Major-General Butler:

R. S. DAVIS,
Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.

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SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF WEST VIRGINIA, Numbers 151. In the Field, August 19, 1864.

1. Leave of absence for twenty days on surgeon's certificate of disability is hereby granted Brigadier General Max Weber, U. S. Volunteers. At


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