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Page 1256 N. AND SE. VA., N.C., W. VA., MD., AND PA. Chapter LVIII.

Morrow, Twenty-fourth Michigan, now commanding First Brigade Third Division, Fifth Corps, to whom the commanding officers of the regiments named will report at once for instruction. The order issued to-day for the Fourth Ohio and Twentieth Indiana Volunteers will be suspended until the remaining regiments shall be prepared to move, when Brevet Brigadier-General Morrow will report the fact to these headquarters, and final orders will be given.

By command of Major-General Meade:

GEO. D. RUGGLES,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

CIRCULAR.] HDQRS. FIRST DIVISION, NINTH ARMY CORPS,

Near Delaney's House, June 5, 1865.

The field headquarters of this division are hereby discontinued. The headquarters of the division are established near the Delaney house, to which all required reports will be forwarded direct.

By command of Bvt. Brigadier General N. B. McLaughlen:

ROBT. A. HUTCHINS,

Assistant Adjutant-General.


HEADQUARTERS MIDDLE MILITARY DIVISION,
June 5, 1865.

Brevet Major-General EMORY,

Commanding Department of West Virginia, Cumberland, Md.:

The prisoners you have are to be retained at Cumberland for the present, or where they are. Your aide returns with information. Duval's brigade is ordered to be relieved from Staunton and will report to you. It will be two or three weeks before it arrives.

C. H. MORGAN,

Brigadier-General of Volunteers.


HEADQUARTERS MIDDLE MILITARY DIVISION,
June 5, 1865.

Brevet Major-General TORBERT,

Winchester, Va.:

The major-general commanding directs that you send a brigade of infantry to relieve General Duval's command from Staunton. On being relieved General Duval's command will report at once to General Emory, commanding Department of West Virginia, at Cumberland, Md. Send supplies for another month.

C. H. MORGAN,

Brigadier-General of Volunteers.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. MIDDLE DEPARTMENT,
EIGHTH ARMY CORPS, Numbers 104.
Baltimore, June 5, 1865.

Brigadier General J. R. Kenly, U. S. Volunteers, is hereby relieved from command of the District of Delaware and Eastern Shore of Maryland and assigned to command of the First Separate Brigade, Eighth Army Corps, to relieve Brigadier General E. B. Tyler, U. S. Volunteers.

By command of Major-General Wallace:

SAMUEL B. LAWRENCE,

Assistant Adjutant-General.


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