706 Series I Volume XLIII-II Serial 91 - Shenandoah Valley Campaign Part II
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obtain and forward to these headquarters promptly all reliable information concerning the enemy now operating in the New Creek Valley. A telegraph operator will report to you for duty on the trip.
By order of Brevet Major-General Kelley:
T. MELVIN,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
HEADQUARTERS,
Cumberland, November 29, 1864.COMMANDING OFFICER ADVANCE TROOPS TRAIN:
SIR: You will move at once with your train to New Creek, disembark, occupy the fortifications, and assume command of the post, and report upon arrival by telegraph. The train conductor will move upon being shown this order.
By order of Brevet Major-General Kelley:
HENRY J. JOHNSON,
Aide-de-Camp.
HEADQUARTERS,
Cumberland, November 29, 1864.Colonel COLE:
You will at once move your command by rail to North Branch bridge or to the siding at the south side of the river, and assume the command of all the troops at that point and Patterson's Creek. You will keep up constant communication between the above-named points, and protect both bridges. Keep these headquarters fully advised of all movements of the enemy in your neighborhood. Make requisitions on assistant quartermaster and commissary of subsistence at thais place for supplies, after which await further orders.
By order of Brevet Major-General Kelley:
HENRY J. JOHNSON,
Aide-de-Camp and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.
HEADQUARTERS,
Cumberland, November 29, 1864.Captain SINGISER,
Commanding Detachment of Twentieth Pennsylvania Cavalry:
SIR: The general commanding directs that you proceed with your command from this point to North Branch bridge and communicate with the officer in command at that point. Then send scouting party down the tow-path to a point opposite mount of Patterson's Creek and communicate with commanding officer there. Advise these officers that a cavalry force of the enemy is or was at Frankfort this a. m. General Kelley also directs that you keep these headquarters fully advised, as you proceed, of all movements of the enemy.
I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
T. MELVIN,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
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