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be sent under an officer to join a command belonging to the same regiments from Camp Parole at the Annapolis Junction on Thursday next, the 11th instant, by the 3 p. m. train. The officer will return from Baltimore unless he belongs to one of the regiments. The Quartermaster's Department will furnish the necessary transportation.
By order of the General-in-Chief:
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
W. HOFFMAN,
Colonel Third Infantry, Commissary-General of Prisoners.
OFFICE COMMISSARY-GENERAL OF PRISONERS,
Washington, D. C., December 8, 1862.
Lieutenant Colonel GEORGE SENGSTER,
Commanding Camp Parole, Annapolis, Md.
COLONEL: The exchanged troops at your camp belonging to regiments serving in and west of Virginia will leave to join their regiments by the evening train on Thursday next, the 11th instant. Send as full rolls with the detachment as possible, each regiment by itself, and furnish cooked rations for the journey. The exchanged men of these regiments at Camp Banks will be ordered to join this command at the Annapolis Junction and the commanding officer must be prepared to take charge of them. Direct him to distribute his command as follows, viz: At Wheeling, for General Wright's department, First, Second, Fourth, Tenth Infantry, Eighth Cavalry and Second Artillery Regiments [West] Virginia Volunteers; and for General Cox's command, Thirty-fourth, Thirst-seventh, Forty-second and Forty-seventh Ohio Infantry. At Camp Wallace, for General Wright's department, the Twenty-third, Thirtieth and Eighty-third Regiments Ohio Infantry. At Nashville, for General Rosecrans' army, Twenty-first and Twenty-fourth Regiments Ohio Infantry and Third and Fourth Regiments Ohio Cavalry; Tenth, Sixteenth, Twenty-second, Twenty-fourth, Twenty-seventh and Fifty-first Illinois Infantry; First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Regiments Tennessee Infantry and Second Regiment Tennessee Cavalry; Thirty-seventh Regiment Indiana Infantry, Eleventh Kentucky Infantry and First and Fourth Regiments Kentucky Cavalry. At Benton Barracks, for General Grant's army, First Regiment Ohio Cavalry; Eleventh, Twelfth, Fifteenth, Twenty-eighth, Twenty-ninth, Thirtieth, Thirty-first and Fifty-eighth Illinois Infantry and Twelfth Illinois Cavalry; Seventh Regiment Tennessee Infantry; Third, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Twelfth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth, Sixteenth Regiments Iowa Infantry and Second Iowa Cavalry, and Eighteenth Regiment Missouri Infantry.
The Quartermaster's Department will furnish the necessary transportation. Notify the quartermaster at Baltimore in season so that there may be no delay there.
Report immediately the regiments and the number of officers and enlisted men in each that will move under this order. The sick in hospital will not go.
By order of the General-in-Chief:
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
W. HOFFMAN,
Colonel Third Infantry, Commissary-General of Prisoners.
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