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[JULY 27, 1864.]
Colonel CURRIE,
Commanding Third Brigadier, First Div., Nineteenth Corps, Jones' Neck:
Your whole division is ordered to concentrate at Washington. The latter is considered in danger again.
G. WEITZEL,
Brigadier-General.
HDQRS. DEPT. OF VIRGINIA AND NORTH CAROLINA,
In the Field, July 27, 1864.Lieutenant KLINE,
Assistant Provost-Marshal, Bermuda:
Order all the men of the Nineteenth Corps, whose regiments are in Washington, to report to Colonel Currie, who leaves some time to-day, to be taken to their regiments.
R. S. DAVIS,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
DEEP BOTTOM, VA., July, 1864-12 m.
(Received, 1.10 p. m.)
Brigadier-General WEITZEL:
I have advanced my line and now hold the Ruffin house. From appearances the enemy are falling back as though General Hancock had turned their works.
R. S. FOSTER,
Brigadier-General.
(Same to General Birney.)
HEADQUARTERS TENTH ARMY CORPS,
July 27, 1864.Brigadier-General FOSTER:
Dispatch received. Keep your force well in hand, advancing on their line to take the best picket-line.
D. B. BIRNEY,
Major-General.
HEADQUARTERS,
Deep Bottom, July 27, 1864.General D. B. BIRNEY:
Your dispatch received. I hold original picket-line, having withdrawn from the Ruffin house, and the points where I advanced. All is quiet with the exception of some picket-firing. The Eighteenth Indiana Volunteers have reported to me.
R. S. FOSTER,
Brigadier-General.
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