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HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC,
August 20, 1864 - 6 p. m.Major-General WARREN,
Commanding Fifth Corps:
Have the railroad party reported to you, and have they commenced work?
A. A. HUMPHREYS,
Major-General and Chief of Staff.
HEADQUARTERS FIFTH ARMY CORPS,
August 20, 1864.Major-General HUMPHREYS,
Chief of Staff:
I think the man who cam into General Butler's lines must have meant Kershaw's brigade instead of Corse's.
G. K. WARREN,
Major-General.
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC,
August 20, 1864 - 6 p. m.Major-General WARREN,
Commanding Fifth Corps:
Kershaw's old brigade is believed to be in the Shenandoah Valley with Kershaw's division. Why do you suppose the deserter to Butler's lines referred to Kershaw's brigade?
A. A. HUMPHREYS,
Major-General and Chief of Staff.
HEADQUARTERS FIFTH ARMY CORPS,
August 20, 1864 - 6.30 p. m.Major-General HUMPHREYS,
Chief of Staff:
Colonel Locke wrote the dispatch for me. I meant him to say that the man Crowley that I took to-day might have meant Keershaw. He did not know exactly how to pronounce the name, and it might have been Corse or Kershaw.
G. K. WARREN,
Major-General.
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