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HEADQUARTERS EIGHTEENTH ARMY CORPS,
July 10, 1864- a.m.[General TURNER:]
GENERAL: The general commanding the corps directs me to say that a deserter reports an intended attack of the enemy at daylight this morning. No serious attack is apprehended, still the necessary precautions will be taken.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
JNumbers CURTIS TYLER,
Major, &c., Aide-de-Camp, General Smith's Staff.
[Indorsement.]
JULY 10, 1864-2.40 a.m.
Respectfully referred to brigade commanders, who will have their commands under arms before daylight and every precaution taken-Colonel Bell, Colonel Curtis, Colonel Duncan, Lieutenant-Colonel Coan. By order of General Turner:
ISRAEL R. SEALY,
Captain, Forty-seventh New York, Actg. Asst. Adjt. General
HEADQUARTERS FIRST DIVISION, TENTH ARMY CORPS,
In the Field, Va., July 10, 1864.Colonel J. R. HAWLEY,
Seventh Connecticut Volunteers, Commanding Second Brigade:
COLONEL: I am directed by the brigadier-general commanding to send you the inclosed statement of the percentage of sick among the troops of this command, and to call your attention to the fact that the sanitary condition of the Seventh Connecticut Volunteers is worse than that of any other regiment of the Seventh Connecticut Volunteers is worse than that of any other regiment of the division, and, also, that the other regiments of your command, while comparing favorably with those of the First Brigade, show a much larger sick-list than those of the Third Brigade.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
A. TERRY,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
[Inclosure.]
Percentage of the sick among the troops of the First Division, Tenth Army Corps.
Commissioned officers Enlisted men.
Prese Prese Per Prese Prese Per
Troops. nt. nt cent nt. nt cent.
sick. . sick. sick
sick
First Brigade.
85th Pennsylvania 15 1 6.7+ 396 77 19.4+
Volunteers.
39th Illinois 16 3 18.7 519 102 19.6+
Volunteers. +
62nd Ohio Volunteers 24 1 4.2+ 522 87 16.2/
3
67th Ohio Volunteers 20 2 10. 545 106 19.4+
Total. 75 7 9.3+ 1,982 372 18.8-
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