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

Page 140 Chapter LV. OPERATIONS IN N. VA., W. VA., MD., AND PA.

CUMBERLAND, September 21, 1864.

Colonel WILKINSON,

Clarksburg:

I have no troops to send you. Have asked the Governor to call out the militia of Harrison, Barbour, Taylor, Upshur, and Lewis Counties. Please keep me advised.

B. F. KELLEY,

Brevet Major-General.

CUMBERLAND, September 21, 1864.

WILLIAM E. PORTER,

Grafton:

Come on with all the force you can raise and go to work at once.

B. F. KELLERY,

Brevet Major-General.

CUMBERLAND, September 21, 1864.

General BOREMAN,

Wheeling:

Captain Hagans, at Buckhannon, reports a force of rebels near Centerville 400 strong and asks for re-enforcements. I have no troops to send him, and must ask that you call out a porion of the militia of Harrison, Lewis, Barbour, Upshur, and Taylor Counties. I hope General Crook will soon send me some troops, as the rebels are now being driven out of the Valley.

B. F. KELLEY,

Brevet Major-General.

WHEELING, September 21, 1864.

Brevet Major-General KELLEY:

I have ordered out the militia of Harrison County, and requested Colonel Wilkinson to cal lout the militia of Upshur and adjacent counties if necessary. The Governor is absent.

F. P. PEIRPOINT,

Adjutant-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPT. OF THE SUSQUEHANNA, No. 222. Chambersburg, Pa., September 21, 1864.

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2. Captain J. K. Weaver, commanding Company F, First Battalion, 100-days' Pennsylvania Volunteers, will send without delay twenty men, under command of a good officer, to Loudon Gap and relieve Company H, First Battalion, 100-days' Pennsylvania Volunteers, commanded by Captain J. D. Sutliff, on duty there.

3. Captain John D. Sutliff, commanding Company H, 100-days' Pennsylvania Volunteers, upon being relieved at Loudon Gap by the detachment of Captain J. K. Weaver's company, will proceed without delay to the camp of the Two hundred and first regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, near Back Creek, and report to Colonel F. Asbury Awl, commanding, for orders.


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