569 Series I Volume XL-II Serial 81 - Richmond, Petersburg Part II
| Page 569 | Chapter LII. CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.-UNION. |
CIRCULAR.] HEADQUARTERS SECOND ARMY CORPS,
July 1, 1864-11.40 p.m.
On the return of the Sixth Corps to-morrow the following changes in the disposition of troops is ordered: As soon as relieved by General Wright, the command of General Ferrero will proceed to the point indicated in orders from headquarters Army of the Potomac, at the crossing of the Blackwater by the Old Norfolk road. If the Sixth Corps relieves enough of General Gibbon's line to allow General Gibbon to relieve the left brigade of the First Division, and to have one brigade of his own division in reserve, it will be done. If not enough of his troops are relieved by the Sixth Corps, General Gibbon will relieve the left brigade of the First Division, putting the whole of his own division in the rifle-pits. Such of the pickets of the Sixth Corps as are in front of the First and Second Divisions will be relieved by those divisions as soon as the above arrangement is completed.
By command of Major-General Hancock:
FRANCIS A. WALKER,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
CIRCULAR.] HEADQUARTERS SECOND ARMY CORPS,
July 1, 1864.
The Sixth Corps now occupies a position on the left of the Second, about three miles from the Williams house, along the plank road.
By command of Major-General Hancock:
W. P. WILSON,
Captain and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.
HEADQUARTERS SECOND ARMY CORPS,
July 1, 1864.Major-General GIBBON,
Commanding Second Division:
GENERAL: General Ferrero has been ordered to relieve as many of your troops on his right as practicable. If you are able to spare the brigade of the Third Division, and your line still be safe, the general desires it to be relieved and sent back to General Birney.
I am, general, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
FRANCIS A. WALKER,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC,
July 1, 1864.Major-General WARREN,
Commanding Fifth Corps:
The major-general commanding directs that you have abatis placed on your line wherever such work will materially strengthen it, and that you make such other additions to your intrechments as your means admit that will add to their security and reduce the number of men necessary to hold them.
A. A. HUMPHREYS,
Major-General and Chief of Staff.
| Page 569 | Chapter LII. CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.-UNION. |
- Confederate President Jefferson Davis calls for March 27 to be a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer.
- Following the Underground Railroad Route By Bicycle
- March is Women's History Month! Read the fascinating accounts of women spies hiding coded messages in women's hair, conductors of the Underground Railroad, soldiers disguised as men, surgeons, and advisors to the President!
- Teachers tackle race, economic disparity and history
- The President's Hymn: 'Give Thanks All Ye People'
- Thanksgiving Day during the Civil War
- Lincoln’s Thanksgiving proclamation in a divided time: ‘one heart and one voice by the whole American People’
- What Abraham Lincoln found reading the Book of Job amid civil war
- Civil War stories on display at Lincoln Highway museum in Unity
- Who was Henry Benning, for whom Fort Benning in Columbus was named?
- Fort Gordon Army Base: Who was John Brown Gordon?
- From the Civil War to the football field, we have been celebrating the wrong values
- History and Healing: Removing Controversial Artifacts from the Civic Landscape
- How to Reframe the Civil War in the Classroom
- Man scores Abraham Lincoln autograph in box of trading cards
- Native Americans' role in the Civil War
- Abraham Lincoln Healed a Divided Nation. We Should Heed His Words Today.
- An escaped slave was the 'Florence Nightingale’ of Indiana's Civil War regiment
- A Southern Democrat survived impeachment trap and came to be in charge of Reconstruction
- New Statue Unveiled In Response To Richmond's Confederate Monuments