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51 Series I Volume XL-III Serial 82 - Richmond, Petersburg Part III

Page 51 Chapter LII. CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.-UNION.

CITY POINT, VA., July 6, 1864.

Major-General BUTLER:

Have you the One hundred and thirty-fourth Regiment Ohio 100-days' men in your command? If so, where is it stationed? Please answer.

By command of Lieutenant-General Grant:

E. S. PARKER,

Assistant Adjutant-General.


HDQRS. DEPT. OF VIRGINIA AND NORTH CAROLINA, July 6, 1864.

Captain E. S. PARKER,
Assistant Adjutant-General, City Point:

The One hundred and thirty-fourth Ohio National Guard is stationed in trenches under General Brooks, Tenth Corps.

H. T. SCHROEDER,

Lieutenant and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

CITY POINT, VA., July 6, 1864.

General BUTLER:

You will please order Lieutenant Colonel Herman Biggs, chief quartermaster of the Eighteenth Corps, now on duty at Fort Monroe, to report for duty with his corps on the field. If you have no officers of his department available to relieve him of his present duties one can be furnished you.

By command of Lieutenant-General Grant:

T. S. BOWERS,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

JULY 6, 1864-12.20 p. m.

Colonel T. S. BOWERS,

Assistant Adjutant-General, Armies of the United States:

Lieutenant-Colonel Biggs is so sick with a very troublesome and dangerous disease as to be entitled to sick leave and go home, and when I saw him four days since he told me he would endeaver to hold on where he was. He cannot ride on horseback. I will send Captain Clark, just relieved at Yorktown, or the best quartermaster I have in the corps into the field, but Colonel Biggs is not able to go.

BENJ. F. BUTLER,

Major-General, Commanding.

BERMUDA, July 6, 1864.

General INGALLS,

Chief Quartermaster, City Point:

The steamer John Brooks returned to City Point with Battery F, Fifth U. S. Artillery, on board.

C. E. FULLER,

Quartermaster.


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