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Page 818 OPERATIONS IN N. VA., W. VA., MD., AND PA. Chapter LV.


HEADQUARTERS NINETEENTH ARMY CORPS, Camp Russell, December 21, 1864.

COMMANDING OFFICER 156TH NEW YORK VOLUNTEERS:

SIR: The general commanding directs that as soon as your command is relieved by the One hundred and thirty-first New York from your present duty that you march your regiment to Winchester and report to your brigade commander at that place.

I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
PETER FRENCH,

Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

STEPHENSON'S DEPOT, December 21, 1864.

Lieutenant B. H. MOORE,

Aide-de-Camp:

The regiment ordered to Martinsburg has gone. Have not been able to obtain transportation for one going to Beverly; therefore it has not started.

I. H. DUVAL,

Brigadier-General.


HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF WEST VIRGINIA, Camp Russell, Va., December 21, 1864.

Brigadier General I. H. DUVAL,
Comdg. Second Infantry Division, Stephenson's Depot, Va.:

The major-general direct that the regiment going to Beverly march to Martinsburg, Va., starting to-morrow morning. Transportation will be secured by Captain Craig, on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, to Beverly to-morrow evening.

By command of Major-General Crook:

B. H. MOORE,

Aide-de-Camp and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

ORDERS.] HEADQUARTERS THIRD CAVALRY DIVISION, December 21, 1864.

The command will move promptly at 5.30 a. m. to-morrow, in the following order: first, Pennington's brigade; second, Battery M, Second U. S. Artillery, followed by the ambulance, wagon, and pack train; hour indicated, without further orders.

By command of Brevet Major-General Custer:

L. SIEBERT,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HARPER'S FERRY, December 21, 1864.

Major-General SHERIDAN:

Colonel McKelvy, in charge of Camp Distribution, Alexandria, sent here last night a body of enlisted men under Major Johnston, Fourteenth Veteran Reserve Corps. His order calls for 593 men; he


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