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82 Series I Volume XLIII-II Serial 91 - Shenandoah Valley Campaign Part II

Page 82 OPERATIONS IN N. VA., W. VA., MD., AND PA. Chapter LV.


SPECIAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS, No. 37.
Cumberland, Md., September 13, 1864.

I. Company G, Fifty West Virginia Cavalry, on duty at West Union, W. Va., will move without delay via railroad and report to the commanding officer at New Creek, W. Va. The quartermaster's department will furnish transportation.

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By order of Brevet Major-General Kelley:

C. A. FREEMAN,
Lieutenant and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. MIDDLE DEPT., 8TH ARMY CORPS, No. 229.
Baltimore, September 13, 1864.

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8. Two companies of the One hundred and ninety-third Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Militia, now stationed at Wilmington, Del., will be put en route at once to report to Major-General Cadwalader, at Philadelphia, Pa., in obedience to orders from the honorable Secretary of War. The quartermaster's department will furnish the necessary transportation. Colonel S. M. Bowman, commanding officer District of Delaware, is charged with the execution of this order.

By command of Major-General Wallace:

SAML. B. LAWRENCE,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPT. OF THE SUSQUEHANNA, No. 51.
Chambersburg, Pa., September 13, 1864.

Captain L. B. Norton, Signal Corps, U. S. Army having reported to the commanding general, in obedience to paragraph 4, Special Orders, No. 288, dated War Department, Adjutant-General's Office, Washington, September 1, 1864, is hereby announced as chief signal officer of the Department of the Susquehanna.

By command of Major-General Couch:

JNO. S. SCHULTZE,

Assistant Adjutant-General.


SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPT. OF THE SUSQUEHANNA, No. 214.
Chambersburg, Pa., September 13, 1864.

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2. Captain M. Hastings, Keystone battery, 100-days' Pennsylvania Volunteers, commanding artillery at Chambersburg, Pa., will report with his command to Colonel F. Asbury Awl, commanding Two hundred and first Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, near Back Creek, at 9 a. m. 14th instant. The command will be supplied with three days' rations, subsistence, and forage.

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By command of Major-General Couch:

JNO. S. SCHULTZE,
Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.


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