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ael, Ninth U. S. Infantry, aide-de-camp; Captain Charles Noble, jr., One hundred and nineteenth Pennsylvania Volunteers, aide-de-camp; Captain J. E. Sweet, Twentieth Indiana Volunteers, acting aide-de-camp.

D. B. BIRNEY,

Major-General.


HEADQUARTERS TENTH ARMY CORPS,
July 23, 1864.

Brigadier-General WEITZEL,

Acting Chief of Staff, &c.:

Please send me any maps that you have of my line. I find none at corps headquarters.

D. B. BIRNEY,

Major-General.


HDQRS. DEPT. OF VIRGINIA AND NORTH CAROLINA,
In the Field, July 23, 1864.

Major-General BIRNEY,

Tenth Corps Headquarters:

Your dispatch received. I will send you all I have ready, and complete the series as soon as possible.

Respectfully,

G. WEITZEL,

Brigadier-General and Acting Chief of Staff.


HEADQUARTERS TENTH ARMY CORPS,
July 23, 1864.

Major R. S. DAVIS,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

I would respectfully suggest that the division of General Turner needs relief. It has lost severely, and certainly I would recommend that the brigade from the Nineteenth Army Corps relieve him. It will be of great importance to me to get corps together and ready for any movement.

D. B. BIRNEY,

Major-General.


SPECIAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS TENTH ARMY CORPS,

Numbers 82.
In the Field, July 23, 1864.

1. Brigadier General A. H. Terry, U. S. Volunteers, having been relieved from temporary command of the Tenth Army Corps, will resume command of the First Division.

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By command of Major-General Birney:

ED. W. SMITH,

Assistant Adjutant-General.


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