1346 Series I Volume XLVI-III Serial 97 - Appomattox Campaign Part III
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HEADQUARTERS FIRST ARMY CORPS, March 24, 1865.Brigadier General G. H. STEUART,
Commanding Pickett's Division:Major Taylor telegraphs that 1,200 men can be shipped at 9 o'clock, about 2,000 at 1 or 2 o'clock in the morning, about the same number at 7 o'clock in the morning. Make your arrangements to suit this. Do not let a moment be lost which you can help. Did you receive my dispatch directing you to send Steuart's brigade in at once to the Petersburg depot?
O. LATROBE,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
HEADQUARTERS FIRST ARMY CORPS, March 24, 1865.Brigadier General G. H. STEUART,
Commanding Pickett's Division:
Advise General Hunton that he need not start for Richmond until Major Taylor notifies him. He will telegraph him to the office on the Williamsburg road, at which General Hunton will keep a courier.
O. LATROBE,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
MARCH 24, 1865.
Brigadier-General STEUART,
Commanding, &c., Nine-Mile Road:
Hunton will not have to start for Richmond before 12 o'clock to-morrow.
O. LATROBE,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
HEADQUARTERS FIRST ARMY CORPS, March 24, 1865.Brigadier General G. H. STEUART,
Commanding Pickett's Division:Hunton's brigade will be retained on this side. You will give it orders to be ready for action to-morrow morning at daylight.
O. LATROBE,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
HEADQUARTERS FIRST ARMY CORPS, March 24, 1865.Brigadier General EPPA HUNTON,
Commanding Brigade:The Eleventh Georgia will be ordered back to its brigade at once. Your men can then occupy the huts they vacate. Your brigade will remain in its present position, and you will be ready to man the works at a moment's notice.
Respectfully, &c.,
O. LATROBE,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
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