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1068 Series I Volume XLVI-III Serial 97 - Appomattox Campaign Part III

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division, so as to move close upon it. The leading division will move precisely at the time mentioned above. A rear guard of two regiments will be detailed by General Miles to follow in rear of the general trains. A company of cavalry will follow the rear guard.

By command of Brevet Major-General Barlow:

CHAS. A. WHITTIER,

Assistant Adjutant-General.


SPECIAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS SECOND ARMY CORPS, No. 98. May 2, 1865.

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4. The troops will move precisely at 6 a.m. to-morrow to Goode's Bridge, via Amelia Court-House, under the same orders as in the march of to-day, except that the order of the divisions will be as follows: Third Division, First Division, Second Division. The leading division will get in motion punctually at the hour named. The leading division will send its pioneers one hour ahead to repair the roads so as to make them thoroughly passable for artillery and trains.

By command of Brevet Major-General Barlow:

CHAS. A. WHITTIER,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

ORDERS.] HDQRS. ARTY. Brigadier, SECOND ARMY CORPS,

May 2, 1865.

The command will move precisely at 4.30 o'clock in the following order: Battery K, Fourth U. S. Artillery; Battery B, First New Jersey Artillery; Companies C and L, Fourth New York Artillery; Battery M, First New Hampshire Artillery; Twelfth New York Battery; Tenth Massachusetts Battery; B, First Rhode Island Artillery.

By command of Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Hazard:

A. M. E. GORDON,

Lieutenant and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS FIFTH ARMY CORPS, No. 44. May 2, 1865.

The corps will march at 6 a.m. to-morrow, and in the following order: First, Second Division; second, Third Division; third, First Division; fourth, artillery; fifth, trains.

By command of Brevet Major-General Griffin:

FRED. T. LOCKE,

Brevet Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS SIXTH CORPS, No. 93. May 2, 1865.

1. Bvt. Major Andrew Cowan, First New York Independent Battery, is assigned to the command of the Artillery Brigade of this corps during the absence of Bvt. Brigadier General C. H. Tompkins.


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