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expected here this evening from Bolivar Heights returns,a s a guard for the same. Upon their arrival here the commanding officer will report to Brigadier General John D. Stevenson, commanding Military District of Harper's Ferry, and will at once take measures to collect together the men of his regiment.
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By order of Brevet Major-General Crook:
P. G. BIER,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. FIRST CAVALRY DIVISION, DEPARTMENT OF WEST VIRGINIA, No. 19. Cumberland, Md., September 5, 1864.The First Brigade of this division is hereby temporarily discontinued. The Twenty-first New York Cavalry and the First New York Veteran Cavalry will make separature reports to these headquarters.
By command of Brigadier-General Duffie:
E. W. CLARK, JR.,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. FIRST CAVALRY DIVISION, DEPARTMENT OF WEST VIRGINIA, No. 44. Cumberland, Md., September 5, 1864.I. Colonel R. F. Taylor, First New York Veteran Cavalry, will take command of his regimental and proceed to Charleston, W. Va. Upon arrival at that place he will report to Brigadier-General Sullivan for duty temporarily. He will proceed by raid Parkersburg, thence by boat to Charleston. Colonel Taylor will send regularly to these headquarters tri-monthly and monthly returns; the tri-monthly will be forwarded on the 9th, 19th, and 29th of each month. Quartermasters will furnish all transportation necessary for his command.
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By command of Brigadier-General Duffie.
E. W. CLARK, JR.,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
HEADQUARTERS SECOND CAVALRY DIVISION, DEPARTMENT OF WEST VIRGINIA,September 5, 1864.
Major GIBSON,
Acting Assistant Inspector-General:
MAJOR: The general desires me to say that he has ordered that no man shall of to the rear without a pass from division headquarters. You will therefore arrest all men of this command who may come to your camp without such pass, and take measures to have them punished. The horses sent herewith, and all horses sent back as unserviceable, will be kept in the possession of the division headquarters it they can be recuperated within ten days; if not, they will be turned over to the post quartermaster. We advance within an hour to try the enemy again.
Respectfully,
WILL RUMSEY,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
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