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

Page 441 Chapter L. CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.-UNION.

F. C. Deimling, Tenth Missouri Infantry. The men will go by cars and the train, with a sufficient guard, will move by dirt road. It will be well to take camp and garrison equipage by rail with the men.

By order of Brigadier General John E. Smith:

C. L. WHITE,

Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

KINGSTON, June 8, 1864.

Brigadier-General WHIPPLE,

Chief of Staff, Department of the Cumberland:

Colonel Hambright is so disabled that he is unfit for service. He could not possibly march with his regiment. If it is to march through he wishes to make the effort.

W. W. LOWE,

Colonel, Commanding.


HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND,
Morris' Hill Church, Ga., June 8, 1864.

Colonel HAMBRIGHT:

The commanding general think you had better return to Chattanooga and there await your recovery from your wound. I will send you an order to that effect and send it to you at Kingston.

WM. D. WHIPPLE,

Chief of Staff.

SPECIAL FIELD ORDERS,
HDQRS. FIFTEENTH ARMY CORPS, Numbers 25.
Acworth, June 8, 1864.* * * * *

V. In pursuance of instructions from department headquarters, Brigadier General William Harrow, commanding Fourth Division, will detail one brigade from his command to proceed at 8 o'clock to-morrow morning on the main Marietta road as far as the Rocky Hill or Big Shanty, as a support to a cavalry reconnaissance under command of General Garrard.

By order of Major General John A. Logan:

R. R. TOWNES,

Assistant Adjutant-General.


SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. SEVENTEENTH ARMY CORPS, Numbers 140.
Acworth, Ga., June 8, 1864.* * * * *

III. In accordance with instructions from Major-General Sherman, the troops of this command will be prepared to move at daybreak to-morrow morning, supplied for ten days. All empty and surplus wagons will be sent to the rear under a competent officer and parked in the vicinity of Cartersville or Etowah bridge.

* * * * *

By command of Major General F. P. Blair, jr.:

A. J. ALEXANDER,
Assistant Adjutant-General.


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