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315 Series I Volume XXXVIII-IV Serial 75 - The Atlanta Campaign Part IV

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ADAIRSVILLE, May 25, 1864.

Colonel HAMBRIGHT,

Commanding:

No information of enemy. Twenty-eighth Kentucky on way guarding cattle. I have force out ten miles east, also same distance west.

W. W. LOWE,

Colonel, Commanding Division.

KINGSTON, May 25, 1864.

Colonel HAMBRIGHT,

Commanding Post:

Will you please furnish an escort of infantry to accompany our men on the line between this place and Rome. Please order them to report, with three days' rations, at this office as soon as possible. We are working north as far as Resaca. Expect to be working through to Chattanooga in a short time.

Very respectfully,

C. G. SHOLES.


HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND,
Near Burnt Hickory, Ga., May 25, 1864-7 a.m.

Colonel H. A. HAMBRIGHT,

Commanding at Kingston, Ga.:

SIR: You will collect all stragglers that can be found in your vicinity and put them at work on the fortifications there, which will be pushed forward as rapidly as possible.

By command of Major General George H. Thomas:

HENRY STONE,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

Several wagons at point near Cassville Station; one loaded with new arms.

SPECIAL FIELD ORDERS,
HDQRS. FIFTEENTH ARMY CORPS, No. 15. Camp in Woods, Ga., May 25, 1864.

I. Brigadier General P. J. Osterhaus, commanding First Division, will have the advance to-day, and move at 6 a.m. on the road to Dallas, and will be followed by the divisions of Brigadier Gens. Morgan L. Smith and W. Harrow, respectively. The same relative disposition of the trains will be made to-day as of yesterday. Headquarters train (Fifteenth Army Corps) will move in rear of the fifteen ammunition-wagons of Second Division.

II. The Fourth Division, Brigadier-General Harrow commanding, is charged with guarding the general supply train, and for that purpose will cause one brigade of his command to move in rear of the whole train. The guards at intervals along the line of wagons will be at the rate of one regiment to every 100 wagons. The remainder of the Fourth Division, including the artillery, will follow closely in rear of the teams of headquarters Fifteenth Army Corps.

Paragraph II, of Special Field Orders, No. 14, date of 23rd instant, will be strictly complied with.

By order of Major General John A. Logan:

R. R. TOWNES,

Assistant Adjutant-General.


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