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16 Series I Volume XL-II Serial 81 - Richmond, Petersburg Part II

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[Indorsement.]

Brigadier-General TERRY:

The above relates to the detail of 600 men. You will please countermand the detail, and send back the above.

By order of Major-General Gillmore:

ED. W. SMITH,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

ORDERS.] HEADQUARTERS TENTH ARMY CORPS, June 13, 1864-9.50 p.m.

In case of an attack the entire command will be gotten promptly under arms; the men will stand to their guns, and the infantry parapets will be manned and the garrisons of the three advanced redoubts will be promptly collected within their works. These redoubts are to be held at all hazards. The pickets if forced back will retire slowly, fighting as skirmishers, as already ordered. Division commanders will hold their reserves in hand to re-enforce on their own front or elsewhere as occasion may require. This order will be promulgated to-night.

Q. A. GILLMORE,

Major-General, Commanding.


SPECIAL ORDERS, HEADQUARTERS TENTH ARMY CORPS,

No. 47. In the Field, near Hatcher's, Va., June 13, 1864.

The One hundred and forty-second Ohio Volunteers, having reported for duty, are assigned to the command of Brigadier-General Terry.

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By command of Major General Q. A. Gillmore:

ED. W. SMITH,

Lieutenant-Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.


SPECIAL ORDERS, HEADQUARTERS TENTH ARMY CORPS,

No. 48. In the Field, Near Hatcher's, Va., June

13, 1864.

II. Company E, Third New York Light Artillery, now in the division of Brigadier-General Terry, is assigned to the command of Colonel H. L. Abbot.

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By command of Major General Q. A. Gillmore:

ISRAEL R. SEALY,

Captains, Forty-seventh New York Vols., Actg. Asst. Adjt. General


SPECIAL ORDERS, HEADQUARTERS TENTH ARMY CORPS,
No. 48 1/2. In the Field, near Hatcher's, Va., June 13, 1864.

Asst. Surg. J. H. Janeway, U. S. Army, is assigned to duty as medical inspector of the Tenth Army Corps.

By command of Major General Q. A. Gillmore:

ISRAEL R. SEALY,

Captain, Forty-seventh New York Vols., Actg. Asst. Adjt. General


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