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147 Series I Volume XLVII-III Serial 100 - Columbia Part III

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HDQRS. DEPT. OF NORTH CAROLINA, ARMY OF THE OHIO,
Goldsborough, April 9, 1865.

Major General A. H. TERRY,

Faison's:

Don't let your sick delay your movement. If necessary leave a detachment with them, with orders to follow and join you as soon the sick are started off. It is desirable that you start promptly, early in the morning.

By order of Major-General Schofield:

J. A. CAMPBELL,

Lieutenant-Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.

FAISON'S STATION, April 9, 1865.

Colonel J. A. CAMPBELL:

Your dispatch is received. I have to start to-morrow morning, but may not be able to get away quite so early. Don't think the delay in sending off the sick will delay my movements.

A. H. TERRY,

Major-General.

GOLDSBOROUGH, N. C., April 9, 1865.

Brigadier General E. HARLAND,

Kinston:

The One hundred and twenty-eighth and One hundred and seventy-fifth New York will report to General Birge and come here with him.

J. A. CAMPBELL,

Lieutenant-Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.

GOLDSBOROUGH, April 9, 1865.

Brigadier General H. W. BIRGE,

New Berne:

Bring the Twenty-second Indiana Battery with you to Goldsborough. You had better have a small regiment come with it as guard.

By order of Major-General Schofield:

J. A. CAMPBELL,

Lieutenant-Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.

NEW BERNE, April 9, 1865.

Brigadier-General HARLAND,

Kinston:

The Twenty-second Indiana Battery will march from here to Goldsborough. Upon their arrival at Kinston please order the One hundred and seventy-fifth New York Volunteers, Captain McCarthey, to join them and march with them to Goldsborough. Also please order the One hundred and twenty-eighth New York Volunteers to proceed by first train to Goldsborough and report to Colonel N. W. Day.

H. W. BIRGE,

Brigadier-General.


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