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taken to impose upon them all fatigue duty that may be required, and in the event of a movement to see that they are so placed as to prevent them again strangling.
By order of Major-General Humphreys:
September CARNCROSS,
Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.
CIRCULAR.] HEADQUARTERS THIRD DIVISION, SECOND CORPS,
December 8, 1864-11.45 p. m.
The command will move at daybreak to-morrow morning. The following will be the order of march: First, Third Brigade, Colonel McAllister; second, ambulance train; third, First Brigade, General De Brigade, General Pierce.
By command of Brevet Major-General Mott:
CHAS. F. MOORE,
Aide-de-Camp and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.
CONFIDENTIAL.] HEADQUARTERS SECOND ARMY CORPS,
December 8, 1864.
Brigadier General T. SEYMOUR,
Commanding Third Division, Sixth Corps:
GENERAL: The commanding general desires me to say that you must retain a garrison of 200 men in Fort Dushane, in addition to the other garrisons, when the reserves of the army move, and you will have them properly provisioned and supplied accordingly.
I am, general, very respectfully, you obedient servant,
September CARNCROSS,
Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.
HEADQUARTERS THIRD DIVISION, SIXTH ARMY CORPS,
December 8, 1864.Major S. CARNCROSS,
Assistant Adjutant-General, Second Corps:
MAJOR: In compliance with communication from headquarters Second Army Corps of this date I have the honor to submit the following list of regiments and names of brigade commanders in this division:
First Brigade, commanded by Colonel Williams S. Truex: Fourteenth New Jersey Volunteers. One hundred and sixth New York Volunteers, battalion One hundred and fifty-first New York Volunteers, Tenth Vermont Volunteers, battalion Eighty-seventh Pennsylvania Volunteers.
Second Brigade, commanded by Colonel J. W. Keifer: One hundred and tenth Ohio Volunteers, One hundred and twenty-second Ohio Volunteers, One hundred and twenty-sixth Ohio Volunteers, One hundred and thirty-eighth Pennsylvania Volunteers, battalion Sixty-seventh Pennsylvania Volunteers, Sixth Maryland Volunteers, Ninth New York Heavy Artillery.
I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
T. SEYMOUR,
Brigadier-General.
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