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

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HEADQUARTERS FOURTH ARMY CORPS,
In the Field, near Brown's Mill Creek, Ga., June 5, 1864-9 p.m.

General STANLEY,

First Division, Fourth Army Corps:

GENERAL: This corps will move to-morrow morning at sunrise. The Third Division, General Wood commanding, will lead, followed by the First Division, then the Second. The troops will move on the most direct road from Dallas to Mason's Bridge and thence to camp not far from Maloney's house, on the Acworth road. In case the Twentieth or Fourteenth Army Corps should be on the road taken by this command they will have the right of way. The troops will move through the fields and byways, leaving the roads for artillery and trains. the main corps train will move, via Burnt Church, across Allatoona Creek, under direction of Lieutenant-Colonel Hayes, chief quartermaster. Ammunition trains and artillery will move on the road near the troops. The hospital will be moved to the vicinity of Acworth under the direction of Surgeon Heard. All of your empty wagons not in the part must be sent to your division hospital at daybreak for the purpose of transporting the slightly wounded.

By order of Major-General Howard:

J. S. FULLERTON,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

(Same to General Newton and Wood.)


HEADQUARTERS FOURTH ARMY CORPS,
Near Brown's Mill Creek, Ga., June 5, 1864-9 p.m.

General NEWTON,

Second Division, Fourth Army Corps:

GENERAL: The troops of this corps will move to-morrow, and you will leave the smallest brigade of your division to cover the corps hospital at this place until all of the wounded can be transported to the railroad. It is suppose that it will take about two days to move them.

By order of Major-General Howard:

J. S. FULLERTON,

Assistant Adjutant-General.


HEADQUARTERS FOURTEENTH ARMY CORPS,
In the Field, June 5, 1864.

Brigadier General W. D. WHIPPLE:

GENERAL: King and Baird report the enemy to have fallen back from my front. Parties are now out to learn the facts. Cavalry is seen to the front on the ground occupied heretofore by rebel infantry.

J. M. PALMER,

Major-General.


HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND,
Near Brown's Mill, Ga., June 5, 1864.

Major General J. HOOKER,

Commanding Twentieth Army Corps:

GENERAL: In accordance with orders from headquarters Military Division of the Mississippi, the major-general commanding department


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