1251 Series I Volume XLII-II Serial 88 - Richmond-Fort Fisher Part II
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McGowan's brigade: Major H. Hammond, brigade quartermaster; Captain R. L. McCaughrin, Fourteenth South Carolina, assistant to brigade quartermaster; Captain R. E. B. Hewetson, First South Carolina, assistant to brigade quartermaster.
Kirkland's brigade: Major G. P. Collins, brigade quartermaster; Captain J. J. Young, Twenty-sixth North Carolina Regiment, assistant to brigade quartermaster; Captain John Gatlin, Fifty-second North Carolina Regiment, assistant to brigade quartermaster.
Cooke's brigade: Major E. M. Braxton, brigade quartermaster; Captain C. H. Thomas, assistant to brigade quartermaster; Captain J. W. White, Twenty-seventh North Carolina Regiment, assistant to brigade quartermaster.
Davis' brigade: Major J. S. Reid, brigade quartermaster; Captain L. P. Cooper, Forty-second Mississippi Regiment, assistant to brigade quartermaster; Captain S. Owens, Eleventh Mississippi Regiment, assistant to brigade quartermaster.
Archer's brigade: Captain A. J. Allensworth, Fourteenth Tennessee, assistant to brigade quartermaster; Captain W. O. Haggerty, Thirteenth Tennessee, assistant to brigade quartermaster.
Walker's brigade: Major J. D. Keiley, jr., brigade quartermaster; Major J. L. Powers, Twenty-second Virginia Regiment.
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XVIII. Authority is hereby granted Major W. S. Basinger, commanding, &c., at Mattoax, to impress 100 slaves from the county of Amelia, Va., for labor on the works now in course of construction at Flat Creek and Mattoax Stations. In making the impressments a care should be had that those who have heretofore furnished slaves should, as a general rule, be passed over, in order that the burden may fall on all alike.
By command of the Secretary of War:
JNumbers WITHERS,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
PETERSBURG, September 15, 1864.
General J. A. WALKER,
Burkeville:
The enemy seems to be moving. Instruct your commanders at bridges to be on the alert.
GEORGE WM. BRENT,
Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.
PETERSBURG, September 15, 1864.
(Received at Stony Creek.)
Captain A. B. WOODRUFF,
Commanding:
Be on the alert and prepared. Enemy is moving in some direction.
HENRY A. WISE,
Brigadier-General.
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