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

Page 510 OPERATIONS IN SE.VA. AND N.C. Chapter LII.


HEADQUARTERS NINTH ARMY CORPS, June 29, 1864.

Captain PEIRCE,
Assistant Quartermaster:

(Care General Ingalls, City Point.)

A the adulate and surveyor's transit will arrive from Fort Monroe some time to-morrow directed to your care. Please send them up to these headquarters as soon as they arrive.

A. E. BURNSIDE,

Major-General.


HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, June 29, 1864-1.20 p.m.

Brigadier-General FERRERO,
Commanding Division, Ninth Corps:

I am instructed to inform you that General Gibbon is ordered to move up to the left of the Second Corps, General Wright having been ordered with his whole corps to Reams' Station to support General Wilson, who finds the whole force of the enemy's cavalry concentrated there to prevent his return. The commanding general directs that you hold your command ready to move up to Prince George Court-House and extend to General Gibbon's vacated position. General Gibbon had a brigade near Lucas', on the Prince George Court-House road, and one near Westbrook's. His picket-line ran from near the plank road past Sturdivant's Mill, across the Norfolk railroad near Well's,&c., connecting with yours on the left near Birchett's. General Sheridan, who is moving up from Wind-Mill Point, is ordered to proceed to Reams' Station. We have cavalry pickets down the plank road.

A. A. HUMPHREYS,

Major-General and Chief of Staff.


HEADQUARTERS CAVALRY CORPS, Camp at Wind-Mill Point,
June 29, 1864-8.30 a.m.

Major General A. A. HUMPHREYS,

Chief of Staff:

All my command will be over the river by 9.30 a.m. to-day. I may be detained here to-day supplying my troops with subsistence, forage, and clothing. Will march to-morrow morning. Shall try, however, to move to-day.

P. H. SHERIDAN,

Major-General, Commanding.

General MEADE,

At General Burnside's Headquarters:

Above dispatch just received. I am repeating General Sheridan's orders through General Ingalls, at City Point.

A. A. H[UMPHREYS],

Major-General and Chief of Staff.


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