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Page 984 N. AND SE.VA., W.VA., MD., AND PA. Chapter LVIII.


HEADQUARTERS MIDDLE MILITARY DIVISION,
March 14, 1865.

General STEVENSON:

General [Hancock] directs me to say that you state on your passes that they are by the authority of the major-general commanding. He will see that they are respected. Your own authority is sufficient to pass all people connected with the army properly.

C. H. MORGAN,

Chief of Staff.

HARPER'S FERRY, W. VA., March 14, 1865.

General MORGAN,

Chief of Staff:

One hundred and ninety-first Ohio arrived this morning, and are in camp near Halltown.

JOHN D. STEVENSON,

Brigadier-General.


HEADQUARTERS MIDDLE MILITARY DIVISION,
March 14, 1865.

Brigadier-General STEVENSON,

Harper's Ferry:

Major-General Hancock directs that you relieve with the troops under your command those belonging to the divisions of Generals Carroll and Duval, viz, the companies and detachments of the Fourteenth Infantry at Kearneysville, Van Cleve's Station, and Opequon bridge; also the detachment of the Twenty-second Pennsylvania Cavalry at Martinsburg. Please confer with General Carroll as to manner of relieving.

C. H. MORGAN,

Brevet Brigadier-General and Chief of Staff.

HARPER'S FERRY, W. VA., March 14, 1865.

Brigadier-General SEWARD,

Martinsburg:

I shall send you Eighteenth Connecticut to-morrow or next day. General Hancock directs that [you] relieve the detachments of Fourteenth West Virginia Infantry at Kearneysville, Van Cleve's Station, Opequon bridge, and also detachment of Twenty-second Pennsylvania Cavalry at Martinsburg, and order them to join their respective commands. Telegraph General Carroll at Cumberland and ascertain where he desires them sent.

JOHN D. STEVENSON,

Brigadier-General.


HEADQUARTERS MIDDLE MILITARY DIVISION,
March 14, 1865.

Brigadier-General FESSENDEN,

Commanding Post:

The major-general commanding directs that you send a good regiment of infantry from your command, with two days' rations, to-morrow


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