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383 Series I Volume XXXVI-II Serial 68 - Wilderness-Cold Harbor Part II

Page 383 Chapter XLVIII. CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. - UNION.

BRANDY, May 4, 1864.

Lieutenant Colonel LEWIS RICHMOND:

Command all here, excepting the Twenty-first and Fifty-ninth Massachusetts, which were left behind to guard the road.

THOS. G. STEVENSON,

Brigadier-General.

MAY 4, 1864.

General STEVENSON,

Brandy:

Colonel Wilhelm, Second Pennsylvania, will report to you for assignment in the Second Brigade.

LEWIS RICHMOND,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

BEALETON, May 4, 1864.

Brigadier-General STEVENSON,

Brandy Station:

Concentrate your command and await further orders from me.

A. E. BURNSIDE,

Major-General.

RAPPAHANNOCK STATION, May 4, 1864.

Brigadier-General STEVENSON,

Brandy:

Start your command at once for Germanna Ford, leaving the Reserve Artillery with the heavy artillery and Twenty-fourth New York to guard it.

A. E. BURNSIDE,

Major-General.

RAPPAHANNOCK STATION, May 4, 1864.

General STEVENSON,

Brandy:

You need not wait any longer at office. Leave an orderly there.

A. E. BURNSIDE,

Major-General.

MAY 4, 1864.

Colonel WILHELM,

Second Pennsylvania, Brandy:

You will report to General Stevenson at Brandy.

LEWIS RICHMOND,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

BRANDY, May 4, 1864.

Major-General BURNSIDE:

Colonel Marshall and his command are here, and the reserve batteries here. No water near Ingall's Station. What shall they do?

S. N. BENJAMIN,

Lieutenant, Acting Aide-de-Camp.


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