69 Series I Volume XXXVIII-IV Serial 75 - The Atlanta Campaign Part IV
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SPECIAL FIELD ORDERS,
HDQRS. ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE, In the Numbers 2.
Field, near Gordon's Gap, May 7, 1864I. Brigadier-General Dodge, commanding Left Wing, Sixteenth Army Corps, will take the advance to-morrow, and will move with his command at 6 o'clock precisely, on the road to Villanow, by way of Ship's Gap.
II. Major-General Logan, commanding Fifteenth Army Corps, will follow the Sixteenth Army Corps, on the same road, unless otherwise ordered, at 7 a.m.
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By order of Major General James B. McPherson:
JAMES WILSON,
Lieutenant-Colonel and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.
SPECIAL FIELD ORDERS,
HDQRS. FIFTEENTH ARMY CORPS, In the Numbers 1.
Field, Gordon's Mills, May 7, 1864.I. Brigadier General Morgan L. Smith, commanding Second Division, will move with his command at 7 o'clock to-morrow morning in rear of General Dodge's command, on the road to Rock Spring Church, thence by the Tavern road to a point where the Gordon's Gap and intersects it.
II. Brigadier General P. J. Osterhaus, commanding First Division, will closely follow the command of Brigadier General M. L. Smith, on the route indicated above.
III. Brigadier General William Harrow, commanding Fourth Division, will move with his command at 8 o'clock to-morrow morning from Crawfish Springs to Rock Spring Church, crossing Chickamauga Creek and Crawfish Creek; and from there to Tavern road to a point opposite Gordon's Springs Gap. Should the road indicated prove impracticable, then General Harrow will move in rear of General Osterhaus, on the road indicated in the first paragraph of this order, and for that purpose will move via Gordon's Mills from his present encampment.
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By order of Major General John A. Logan:
R. R. TOWNES,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
SPECIAL FIELD ORDERS,
HDQRS. FIFTEENTH ARMY CORPS, In the Field, Numbers 2.
near Gordon's Gap, Ga., May 7, 1864.* * * *
III. The troops of this command will move forward to-morrow morning at 7 o'clock, in rear of Brigadier-General Dodge's command, on the road to Villanow, by way of Ship's Gap. The First Division, Brigadier-General Osterhaus commanding, will take the advance, to be followed by the Second and Fourth Division, respectively.
By order of Major General John A. Logan:
R. R. TOWNES,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
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