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acting ordnance officer, the ordnance train. Major A. C. Waterhouse, commanding Artillery Brigade, will relieve all details for guard duty serving with him, and order them to report to their respective commanders.

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By command of Major General F. P. Blair:

C. CADLE, Jr.,

Assistant Adjutant-General.


HEADQUARTERS SEVENTEENTH ARMY CORPS,
Irwin's Cross-Roads, GA., November 27, 1864.

Brigadier General M. D. LEGGETT, Commanding Third Division:

GENERAL: The major-General commanding directs me to say to you that you may make as long a march to-morrow as you can with comfort to your command, moving parallel to the route of the other divisions and keeping within communicating distance of the General. You may go into camp at such time as will enable your whole command to be in at a reasonable hour in the evening.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

C. CADLE, Jr.,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

CIRCULAR.] HDQRS. FOURTH DIV., 17TH ARMY CORPS,

Near Irwin's Cross-Roads, GA., November 27, 1864.

The troops of this division will move to-morrow morning promptly at 7 o'clock. The Third Brigade will have the advance; the artillery and trains of regular order.

By order of Brigadier General Giles A. Smith:

CHAS. H. BRUSH,

First Lieutenant and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.


SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. FOURTEENTH ARMY CORPS,
LEFT WING, ARMY OF Georgia, Numbers 202.
Sandersville, GA., November 27, 1864.

I. Surg. W. C. Daniels, U. S. Volunteers, chief surgeon Second Division, Fourteenth Army Corps, is hereby relieved from duty with that division, and will at once report for duty at these headquarters as medical director of the Fourteenth Army Corps.

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By order of Bvt. Major General J. C. Davis:

A. C. McCLURG,
Assistant Adjutant-General and Chief of Staff.


HEADQUARTERS LEFT WING, ARMY OF Georgia,

Davisborough, GA., November 27, 1864.

Brigadier General A. S. WILLIAMS, Commanding Twentieth Corps:

The major-General commanding directs that you move your wagon train at 6 o'clock to-morrow morning, in charge of one division, on the direct road to Louisville. The two other divisions will continue the destruction of the railroad. The ties must all be taken up and placed


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