SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. MIDDLE MILITARY DIVISION, No. 37.
September 17, 1864.

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2. Lieutenant James Chester, Third U. S. Artillery, is hereby appointed acting ordnance officer of the Horse Artillery Brigade, serving with the cavalry, and ordered to report to Captain L. L. Livingston, chief of artillery.

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By command of Major-General Sheridan:

C. KINGSBURY, JR.,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF WASHINGTON, TWENTY-SECOND ARMY CORPS, No. 232.
September 17, 1864.

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5. The Two hundred and twelfth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers (Sixth Artillery), having reported to these headquarters pursuant to orders, will be reported without delay to Brigadier-General De Russy, commanding division, for assignment to duty. The quartermaster's department will furnish the necessary transportation.

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By command of Major-General Augur:

C. H. RAYMOND,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS CAVALRY BRIGADE,
Near First Buffalo, Va., September 17, 1864.

Lieutenant Colonel J. H. TAYLOR,

Chief of Staff and Assistant Adjutant-General

COLONEL: I have the honor to inform you that there is nothing of importance to report from this vicinity. Colonel Lazelle and party, consisting of 271 men of the Sixteenth New York Volunteer Cavalry and 50 men of the Thirteenth New York Cavalry, went out at 3 o'clock this morning.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

H. S. GANSEVOORT,

Colonel Thirteenth New York Vol. Cavalry, Comdg. Cavalry Brigade.

HEADQUARTERS DETACHMENT NINETEENTH ARMY CORPS,
Near Berryville, Va., September 17, 1864.

Brigadier-General RAWLINS,

Chief of Staff, Armies of the United States:

GENERAL: A letter received by Colonel Sharpe, commanding Third Brigade, Second Division, of the Nineteenth Army Corps, from a staff officer of Major-General Canby, conveyers the information to this corps that there are being organized two divisions, which, with the Third Division, now in Louisiana, are to comprise the Nineteenth Army

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