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Page 606 OPERATIONS IN N. VA.,W. VA.,MD.,AND PA. Chapter XLIX.

[Inclosure.]


HEADQUARTERS VALLEY DISTRICT,
August 3, 1864.

General BRECKINRIDGE,

Commanding:

GENERAL: Lieutenant-General early directs that you send a brigade of infantry at once to Martinsburg, with instructions to picket the various roads. It is intended to protect a train of wagons which goes to-day to Hedgesville for leather, and you will direct it to remain in Martinsburg until after the return of the train to-night.

Respectfully, &c.,

A. S. PENDLETON,

Assistant Adjutant-General.


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