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Page 690 OPERATIONS IN N. C., S. C., S. GA., AND E. FLA. Chapter LIX.

RALEIGH, N. C., March 25, 1865.

Major ALLEN J. GREEN,

Commanding Post, Chester, N. C.:

Communicate with Surgeon Lining, medical purveyor Hardee's command, and direct him to report to General Hardee with his supplies. He is supposed to be at Camden. Hardee at Smithfield.

JOHN M. OTEY,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

RALEIGH, N. C., March 25, 1865.

Brigadier General A. R. LAWTON,

Quartermaster-General, Richmond, Va.:

Order for teams were repeated several times, but had not yet reached them when last heard from. It will be repeated again.

G. T. BEAUREGARD.

RALEIGH, N. C., March 25, 1865.

General S. D. LEE,

Chester, S. C.:

(Care of Major Allen J. Green.)

Major Ayer must turn over to Major Norman W. Smith, quartermaster, 400 wagons of Army of Tennessee, to be used as follows: One hundred from Black Stocks or Winnsborough to Alston, 200 from Abbeville to Washington, and 100 to collect supplies in Northwestern South Carolina. Order Major Ayer to send Major J. Blue Moore to report of General Johnston. General Johnston orders this.

G. T. BEAUREGARD.

IN THE FIELD, March 25, 1865.

Prisoners captured by the Army of Tennessee in the engagement of March 19, 20, and 21, 1865:

Lee's corps. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376

Cheatham's corps. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

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Total. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417

No prisoners were captured by Stewart's corps, and all above reported were captured on the 19th instant.

ALEX. P. STEWART,

Lieutenant-General, Commanding.

NOTE. - In Stewart's corps a number of the enemy passed through the line to our rear. The men were ordered not to stop to collect them, but to move on to the front. These were doubltess picked up by other commands. Several pieces of artillery were also captured by the Army of Tennessee. I have not been able to ascertain the number.

ALEX. P. STEWART,

Lieutenant-General.


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