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HEADQUARTERS, August 21, 1864-8.40 a.m.Major-General ORD,
Commanding Eighteenth Corps:What did the firing mean this morning?
B. F. BUTLER,
Major-General, Commanding.
HEADQUARTERS EIGHTEENTH ARMY CORPS, August 21, 1864.Lieutenant-Colonel KENSEL:
There is very heavy firing now going on five or six miles south of this apparently, probably a severe regiment on the left. It is too far to hear musketry.
E. O. C. ORD,
Major-General.
HEADQUARTERS EIGHTEENTH ARMY CORPS, August 21, 1864.Colonel KENSEL,
Chief of Staff:The firing this a.m. was a shelling along the whole line just as much as we have half for three mornings previous. I suppose it was intended to annoy us.
ORD,
Major-General.
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, August 21, 1864-10.30 a.m.Major-General ORD,
Commanding Eighteenth Corps:The major-general commanding directs that you open your batteries upon the enemy.
A. A. HUMPHREYS,
Major-General and Chief of Staff.
(Same to Brigadier-General Mott.)
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, August 21, 1864-10.35 a.m.Major-General ORD,
Commanding Eighteenth Corps:The major-general commanding directs that in addition to opening your batteries upon the enemy, you make every demonstration of attack upon them.
A. A. HUMPHREYS,
Major-General and Chief of Staff.
(Same to Brigadier-General Mott.)
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