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24 Series I Volume XXXVIII-IV Serial 75 - The Atlanta Campaign Part IV

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quartermaster, Colonel L. C. Easton, U. S. Army; chief commissary, Colonel A. Beckwith, U. S. Army; chief of ordnance, Captain Thomas G. Baylor, U. S. Army; medical inspector, Surg. E. D. Kittoe, U. S. Volunteers; inspectors-general, Brigadier General J. M. Corse, U. S. Volunteers, Lieutenant Colonel Charles Ewing, Captain, Thirteenth U. S. Infantry, Lieutenant Colonel Willard Warner, Seventy-sixth Ohio Volunteers.

Reports and applications requiring immediate action will be addressed by generals commanding separate armies directly to the commander-in-chief; by subordinates, to Captain L. M. Dayton, aide-de-camp. All current business will, as heretofore, be addressed to Lieutenant Colonel R. M. Sawyer, assistant adjutant-general of the division headquarters, Nashville, Tenn.

W. T. SHERMAN,

Major-General, Commanding.

ORDERS,
HDQRS. SECOND DIV., TWENTIETH ARMY CORPS, Numbers 11.
Shellmound, Tenn., May 3, 1864.

The command will march at 5.30 o'clock to-morrow morning, the First Brigade moving in advance.

The order of march, with the exception of the change in brigades, will be at the same as that of to-day. The One hundred and ninth Pennsylvania Volunteers will march in rear of First Brigade.

The commanding officer of Third Brigade will detail one regiment as rear guard to the train.

Reveille will be announced at 4 o'clock.

By command of Brigadier General John W. Geary:

THOMAS H. ELLIOTT,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

GENERAL ORDERS,
IN THE FIELD, Numbers 19.
May 3, 1864.

The division will move promptly at 4.30 in the morning. The Second Brigade will have the advance. The artillery will march as usual, between the brigades. A staff officer will indicate at the proper time the route to be taken. Reveille at 3 a. m., at which time the troops will be saddled and under arms. The field officer of the day will report from the Second Brigade before marching.

By command of Colonel E. M. McCook:

ROBERT LE ROY,

Captain and Assistant Adjutant-General.


SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. 23rd A. C., ARMY OF THE OHIO, Numbers 56.
Cleveland, Tenn., May 3, 1864.

Brigadier General N. C. McLean will report for duty to Brigadier-General Judah, commanding Second Division, Twenty-third Army Corps, for assignment to command of one of the brigades of his division.

By command of Major-General Schofield:

G. M. BASCOM,
Lieutenant-Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.


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