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SPECIAL FIELD ORDERS,
HDQRS. ARMY OF THE TENN., Numbers 100.
Raleigh, N. C., April 25, 1865.* * * * *
II. The Fifteenth Army Corps, Major General John A. Logan commanding, will move at 6 a. m. to-morrow via Jones' and Green Level, marching to a point fifteen miles distance from Raleigh. The Seventeenth Army Corps, Major General F. P. Blair, commanding, moving at 6 a. m. to-morrow, willmarch via Green Level to a point sixteen miles distant from Raleigh, where it will halt until 12 m., after which hour the march will be continued by the road via Trades Hill to a point as near Haw River as practicable. The bridge train will move in advance of the Seventeenth Army Corps with a strong guard furnished by that corps. These headquarters will move at 7 a. m.
By command of Major General O. O. Howard:
A. M. VAN DYKE,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE,
Raleigh, N. C., April 25, 1865.Major General JOHN A. LOGAN,
Commanding Fifteenth Army Corps:
GENERAL: The general directs that the movement ordered for to-morrow be suspended until further orders, and that your troops remain in their present camp.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
A. M. VAN DYKE,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE,
Raleigh, N. C., April 25, 1865.Major-General BLAIR,
Commanding Seventeenth Army Corps:
GENERAL: The movement ordered for to-morrow will be suspended until further orders. The general directs that your corps and the bridge train be kept well together, that they may be ready to move at a moment's warning.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
A. M. VAN DYKE,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. SEVENTEENTH ARMY CORPS, Numbers 2.
Jones', N. C., April 25, 1865.In order that each division and brigade in this command may have a distinguishing flag the following order is made: The flag for the headquarters of the several divisions will be of dark blue bunting, with yellow fringe; the size of the flag to be four feet fly and three feet deep on the pole. An arrow of the distinguishing color of the division, eighteen inches long, will be placed on the flag parallel to the fly and with the barb from the pole. The brigade headquarters flags will be of the same material as those of divisions, and of the same
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