605 Series I Volume XLIII-II Serial 91 - Shenandoah Valley Campaign Part II
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HEADQUARTERS CAVALRY, MIDDLE MILITARY DIVISION,
November 11, 1864.General CUSTER:
The chief of cavalry desires me to say that you may move your brigades as you suggest (in your note* just received) to-morrow a. m., keeping one in communication with the other, and also keeping General Merritt or himself advised in case anything occurs. General Torbert will keep along in the vicinity of the pike.
Very respectfully,
WM. RUSSELL, JR.,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
CIRCULAR.] HEADQUARTERS THIRD CAVALRY DIVISION,
November 11, 1864.
The command will be ready to move at 5 a. m. precisely to-morrow. Camps will be left where they are and saddles will be light. Brigade commander will have their men well supplied with ammunition. No wagons will be taken.
The command will move in the following order; first, Second Brigade Cavalry, Colonel W. Wells commanding; second, Battery C, Third U. S. Artillery; third, First Brigade, Colonel Pennington.
The regiment on picket at Fawcett's Gap will remain there.
By command of Brevet Major-General Custer:
L. SIEBERT,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
HEADQUARTERS THIRD CAVALRY DIVISION,
November 11, 1864.Colonel A. C. M. PENNINGTON,
Commanding First Brigade:
COLONEL: The chief of cavalry orders you to attack and drive the enemy at once. You will get your command ready immediately, and send word to these headquarters as soon as you are prepared to move. The general desires to see you at once.
By command of Brevet Major-General Custer:
L. SIEBERT,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
HEADQUARTERS THIRD CAVALRY DIVISION,
November 11, 1864.Colonel A. C. M. PENNINGTON,
Commanding First Brigade:
COLONEL: The general commanding directs that you send on a party of fifteen or twenty men to Mount Zion Church, to find out whether anything has transpired there. He also wishes you to notify the commanding officer there that the line of the Second Brigade has been pushed back some distance, and that the greatest vigilance is required to guard against the enemy coming into his rear.
Very respectfully, &c.,
L. SIEBERT,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
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