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they cannot make more than two trips to-night. The only wharf I have had is one arranged for the landing of General Ames' division. Colonel Serrell reports that the landings or scows brought up have neither anchors nor ropes, nor any means of making them fast. All the arrangements for landing seem very imperfect. Whatever they are, they are being and will be used to their utmost capacity, but my command will not be on shore by daybreak by considerable.
Q. A. GILLMORE,
Major-General, Commanding.
HEADQUARTERS TENTH ARMY CORPS, May 6, 1864.Major-General BUTLER,
Commanding Department:I will give General Smith a battery if I get two. I urge that the monitors be sent up the river farther.
Q. A. GILLMORE,
Major-General, Commanding.
GENERAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS TENTH ARMY CORPS, Numbers 1.
Bermuda Hundred, Va., May 6, 1864.The following-named officers are hereby announced as constituting the staff of the Tenth Army Corps:
Brigadier General R. S. Foster, U. S. Volunteers, chief of staff.
Lieutenant Colonel Ed. W. Smith, assistant adjutant-general.
Captain I. R. Sealy, Forty-seventh New York Volunteers, acting assistant adjutant-general.
Lieutenant Colonel M. R. Morgan, chief commissary of subsistence.
Lieutenant Colonel R. H. Jackson, assistant inspector-general and acting chief of artillery.
Lieutenant Colonel C. E. Fuller, chief quartermaster.
Captain W. V. Hutchings, assistant quartermaster, U. S. Volunteers, acting chief quartermaster.
Surg. J. J. Craven, U. S. Volunteers, medical director.
Major J. C. Henshaw, judge-advocate.
Captain A. Mordecai, chief of ordnance.
First Lieutenant P. S. Michie, U. S. Engineers.
Major T. B. Brooks, aide-de-camp.
Captain H. M. Bragg, aide-de-camp.
Captain B. T. Frothingham, aide-de-camp.
Q. A. GILLMORE,
Major-General, Commanding.
HEADQUARTERS TENTH ARMY CORPS, In the Field, May 6, 1864.Brigadier General J. W. TURNER,
Commanding Second Division:
GENERAL: I am instructed by the major-general commanding to direct you to move your present camp to a position about 1 mile to
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