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7. Lieutenant G. H. North, Fourteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry, acting ordnance officer, Second Cavalry Division, Department of West Virginia, will report in person without delay to Brevet Major-General Torbert, chief of cavalry.
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9. The Sixth Corps, Major-General Wright commanding, will move to-morrow morning to Alexandria, via Ashby's Gap and the Aldie pike. On arriving at Alexandria, the commanding officer will report to Major-General Halleck for further orders. The provisional troops now attached to the Sixth Corps, under the command of Colonel Heine, will remain at Front Royal awaiting orders from these headquarters. The brigade of the Sixth Corps now at Winchester will be relieved by orders from these headquarters, and will join its corps at Alexandria. The wagons of the Sixth Corps are at Winchester, and will be ordered by General Wright to join the corps at the crossing of the Shenandoah at Ashby's Gap to-morrow. Should there be other wagons of the corps on the road to Martinsburg, they will join the brigade at Winchester, and will join the corps at Alexandria, via Harper's Ferry. The utmost celerity will be required in marching the Sixth Corps to Alexandria by the above designated route.
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By command of Major-General Sheridan:
C. KINGSBURY, JR.,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
RECTORTOWN, VA., October 12, 1864.
(Received 12.30 p.m.)
Major General H. W. HALLECK,
Chief of Staff:
I have received your dispatch concerning the placing of prominent secessionists on the trains.* When troops first arrived here, Mosby gave out that all the men were to be carried arrested and sent to Washington. There are, in consequence, but a few old and infirm men left here. I think in a few days the others will return, and I can then make the necessary arrests.
C. C. AUGUR,
Major-General.
RECTORTOWN, VA., October 12, 1864-9.30 p.m.
(Received 9.35 p.m.)
Major-General HALLECK,
Chief of Staff:
Nothing yet heard from Sixth Corps. The first train from Alexandria to-day has arrived here safely; the other trains have not yet arrived; they are supposed to be at White Plains. Nothing of importance to-day.
C. C. AUGUR,
Major-General.
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* See Halleck to Augur, 11th, 6.35 p.m., p.341.
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