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700 Series I Volume XXX-IV Serial 53 - Chickamauga Part IV

Page 700 KY.,SW.VA.,TENN.,MISS.,N.ALA.,AND N.GA. Chapter XLII.

Brigade headquarters: For general and all staff officers, two 4-horse wagons; regiment, one 4-horse wagon; company officers, two 4-horse wagons; 200 men for duty, one 4-horse wagon.

Reserve Artillery Battalion: Field and staff, one 4-horse wagon; for forage, two 4-horse wagons. Each battery of artillery will have wagons to enable it to carry 200 rounds of ammunition to each gun, including that in caissons.

II. There will be a brigade ordnance train of one 4-horse wagon for every 375 men present for duty, and a reserve train for each division of one 4-horse wagon for every 375 men present for duty.

III. All transportation in excess of this allowance will be sent to army headquarters and turned over to Major M. B. McMicken, chief quartermaster.

By command of General Bragg:

GEORGE WM. BRENT,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

ORDERS.] HEADQUARTERS POLK'S CORPS,

Near Chattanooga, September 24, 1863.

Jackson's brigade is hereby transferred from Cheatham's division to Walker's division. Brigadier-General Jackson will report accordingly.

By command of Lieutenant-General Polk:

[T. M. JACK,]

Assistant Adjutant-General.

CIRCULAR.] HEADQUARTERS POLK'S CORPS,

Missionary Ridge, September 24, 1863.

The enemy is reported advancing. You will hold yourself in readiness to receive him.

By command of Lieutenant-General Polk:

[T. M. JACK,]

Assistant Adjutant-General.

[Sent to Major-General Cheatham, Major-General Walker, and Brigadier-General Anderson.]


HEADQUARTERS RIGHT WING, ARMY OF TENNESSEE, Missionary Ridge, September 24, 1863-9 a.m.

Major-General WALKER:

GENERAL: The lieutenant-general commanding desires you to move your wagon train from its present encampment to the east side of Chickamauga Creek and south side of Timan's Creek between Shallow Ford and Mission Mills.

The courier bearing this goes to the wagon trains and can bear your order if you desire it.

Respectfully, general, your obedient servant,
[T. M. JACK,]

Assistant Adjutant-General.


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