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| Page 478 | OPERATIONS IN N. VA., W. VA., MD., AND PA. Chapter LV. |
HEADQUARTERS THIRD DIVISION CAVALRY, MIDDLE MILITARY DIVISION, October 27, 1864.Colonel PENNINGTON,
Commanding First Brigade:Send a party of fifty men, under charge of a good officer, to mount Zion church, whit orders to ascertain if the enemy has been there in any force within the last three days; also direct the officer who goes in command to send a small party from the church about two miles in the direction of Fawcett's Gap, after which the entire party will return to camp and report.
Very respectfully, &c.,
G. A . CUSTER,
Brigadier-General, Commanding.
HEADQUARTERS CAVALRY, MIDDLE MILITARY DIVISION, October 27, 1864.Colonel WELLS:
Captain Ransom's battery was ordered to you this p. m., to relieve Lieutenant Peirce, whose battery is to return to Reserve Camp, at Pleasant Valley. Lieutenant Peirce was given instructions this afternoon at these headquarters to hold his command ready to go down whit the returning train. Orders when to go will be sent him direct from these headquarters.
Very respectfully, &c.,
WM. RUSSELL, JR.,Assistant Adjutant-General.
HEADQUARTERS MIDDLE MILITARY DIVISION, October 27, 1864.Brigadier General THOMAS H. NEILL, U. S. Volunteers:
GENERAL: I have the honor to inclose special order* assigning you to the duty of inspecting certain portions of the Department of West Virginia. The major-general commanding directs that, in compliance therewith, you at once proceed to Charleston and particularly inquire into an to and report on the late movements and operation s of guerrillas in the Kanawha Valley, and inspect the troops along the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and report to these headquarters their condition, and such other matter as may be of interest to the major-general commanding. You are directed to report frequently to these headquarters your address. Special instructions will be sent you, from time to time, as may be necessary.
I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
C. KINGSBURY, JR.,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
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*See p. 475.
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