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HEADQUARTERS MIDDLE MILITARY DIVISION,
March 15, 1865.Colonel THOMAS M. VINCENT,
Assistant Adjutant-General, War Department:
Where is the One hundred and ninety-fifth Pennsylvania? I would suggest that both regiments go to Harper's Ferry for organization, as it will be the simplest way. Have the four companies of the One hundred and ninety-second Pennsylvania already gone to Cumberland?
WINF'D S. HANCOCK,
Major-General.
HEADQUARTERS MIDDLE MILITARY DIVISION,
March 15, 1865.Colonel THOMAS M. VINCENT,
Assistant Adjutant-General, War Department:
The One hundred and ninety-fifth Pennsylvania Volunteers is at Kearneysville, between Martinsburg and Harper's Ferry. Unless the four companies of the One hundred and ninety-second are already at Cumberland it would be better to send both regiments to Harper's Ferry.
WINF'D S. HANCOCK,
Major-General.
FAIRFAX COURT-HOUSE, VA., March 15, 1865-5 p.m.
(Received 5.35 p.m.)
Lieutenant Colonel J. H. TAYLOR,
Chief of Staff, Department of Washington:
COLONEL: Captain Russell, Eighth Illinois Cavalry, with his detachment, has just returned from Sperryville. Five rebels, with horses and equipments, captured, and one killed, by the Eighth Illinois. The Sixteenth New York Cavalry lost who captured by guerrillas. Official report will be sent in to-morrow. Colonel Sweitzer's command has returned to Vienna.
W. GAMBLE,
Colonel, Commanding Brigade.
HEADQUARTERS MIDDLE MILITARY DIVISION,
March 15, 1865.General EMORY,
Stephenson's Station:
The major-general commanding wishes you to send a strong regiment of infantry to-morrow morning form Summit Point to Myerstown and Kabletown, Shenandoah Ferry, and the vicinity. If the regiment cannot make the tour in one day let them remain over night. The commanding officer will have any parties engaged in conscripting arrested, and will get all the information he can concerning the guerrilla parties on this side of the river. Let the commanding office know that Reno will send a party of cavalry through the country between Charlestown and the river.
By order:
C. H. MORGAN,
Brevet Brigadier-General and Chief of Staff.
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