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GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. SECOND CAVALRY DIVISION, No. 11.
DEPARTMENT OF WEST VIRGINIA, Morris' Hill, June 4, 1864.The following will be the order of march for to-morrow: Conger's battalion will move at 4 a.m. At the crossing of Jackson River he will post pickets at all points where there may be apprehension of an attack by bushwhackers. The Second Brigade will move at 6 a.m. The artillery will follow the Second Brigade. The First Brigade will move at 6 a.m. The Third Brigade will follow the First. The supply train will follow the division. Brigade commissaries will report to Lieutenant Koenigsberger, acting commissary of subsistence, in the morning.
By command of Brigadier General W. W. Averell:
WILL RUMSEY,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
JUNE 4, 1864-11.40 a.m.
Major-General SIGEL,
Martinsburg, W. Va.:
You will immediately send to Washington, to report to Major-General Augur, five of the Ohio 100-days' regiments, under your command.
J. C. KELTON,
Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.
HARPER'S FERRY, W. VA., June 4, 1864.
(Received 8.50 a.m. 5th.)
Colonel J. C. KELTON,
Assistant Adjutant-General:
Your dispatch received. I have ordered four regiments to report to General Augur at Washington at once. On yesterday I sent two regiments and five companies to General Hunter as escort to a train. After sending the four regiments under your orders it will leave only one battalion Fifth New York Artillery at Harper's Ferry, one regiment Ohio National Guard at this post, one Ohio National Guard at Cumberland, and one Ohio National Guard at New Creek. Shall another regiment of those be sent before those now on the way to General Hunter have returned?
FRANZ SIGEL,
Major-General.
CUMBERLAND, June 4, 1864-11 p.m.
Major T. A. MEYSENBURG,
Assistant Adjutant-General, Martinsburg:
The One hundred and thirty-fourth Regiment Ohio National Guard will proceed from here to-morrow morning. One hundred and thirty-third, at New Creek, will move as soon as a large detachment returns, that is now out on a scout, which will be probably in a day or two.
B. F. KELLEY,
Brigadier-General.
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