SPECIAL ORDERS, Į HDQRS. FIRST DIV., TENTH ARMY CORPS, No. 79. By order of Brig. Gen. A. H. Terry: A. TERRY, Assistant Adjutant-General. HDQRS. THIRD BRIG., FIRST DIV., TENTH ARMY CORPS, Brig. Gen. A. H. TERRY, Commanding First Division, Tenth Army Corps: The enemy occupy the edge of the woods, they being too strong to be dislodged by Colonel Hill to-day. We have had 4 or 5 men wounded. I think it necessary that there should be two guns in the earth-work on the bluff below Four-Mile Creek, as they would render the position of any battery the enemy might attempt to place on my right very insecure. They also would assist in repelling any attack of the enemy on that part of the line, and assist materially in driving the enemy from the woods if we wish to occupy them. I think the position of so much importance that if they cannot be sent me I shall take two guns from my line here, although it would weaken it to do so. Respectfully, yours, R. S. FOSTER, HDQRS. DEPT. OF VIRGINIA AND NORTH CAROLINA, General FOSTER, Deep Bottom : General Grant hears some firing again up our way and wants to know what it is. Please inform us at once. G. WEITZEL, Brigadier-General WEITZEL: BEEP BOTTOM, VA., July 23, 1861. There is no firing here except an occasional shot by the gun-boats into the woods in front of my line below Four-Mile Creek. The Eleventh Maine hold a position covering the road from New Market to Malvern Hill. All is quiet along my lines. Respectfully, (Forwarded to Lieutenant-General Grant.) R. S. FOSTER. HDQRS, DEPT. OF VIRGINIA AND NORTH CAROLINA, A deserter has just been brought in from your front. He says he gave you some Richmond papers. General Butler wants you to send them to him at once, and do so whenever you get a late paper. considers this highly important. He G. WEITZEL, Brigadier-General WEITZEL: DEEP BOTTOM, VA., July 23, 1864. I GENERAL: I have received no paper to-day from any deserter. received a Richmond Sentinel this evening of the 22d from the officer of picket who exchanged by order from Captain Davis. I never omit to forward all Richmond papers to corps headquarters. I intended to forward this by first courier in the morning. No news in it. Shall I send it to-night? My orders are that papers exchanged or taken from deserters be sent to me to be transmitted to corps headquarters. R. S. FOSTER, HDQRS. DEPT. OF VIRGINIA AND NORTH CAROLINA, General R. S. FOSTER, Jones' Neck: Nearly all of one brigade of the Nineteenth Corps has just been ordered to report to you. Put it into position on the down-river side of Four-Mile Creek and let it intrench. G. WEITZEL, HEADQUARTERS, Brigadier-General WEITZEL: Deep Bottom, Va., July 23, 1864. GENERAL: If there is any object in concealing the force to be encamped by Four-Mile Creek I would suggest that they be camped on Jones' Neck until the works are completed, otherwise they will be in full view of the enemy. I would also suggest you would come or send your assistant to select the position you wish intrenched. Yours, &c., R. S. FOSTER, HDQRS. DEPT. OF VIRGINIA AND NORTH CAROLINA, General FOSTER, Deep Bottom: Your dispatch received. in concealing our forces. In the Field, July 23, 1864. Michie is on the way. There is no object G. WEITZEL, Major-General BUTLER, HEADQUARTERS U. S. FORCES, Commanding Department of Virginia and North Carolina: GENERAL: I have again repaired the U. S. military telegraph line from this place to Swan Point. I caused four citizens to be brought in as hostages, and had the people living along the line notified that they would be held responsible for the safety of that line. What shall I do with these hostages? Since they were brought in I have learned that one of them, a minister, relieved and dressed the wounds of one of our soldiers, cared for him till morning, then sent him to this fort. I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant, G. S. INNIS, Colonel, Commanding Post. Lieut. Gen. U. S. GRANT: WASHINGTON, July 24, 1864-9 p. m. The appointment of brigadiers recommended by you, to wit, Colonels McCandless, Chapman, Chamberlain, and McIntosh were ordered and have been made out and will be transmitted to you by the AdjutantGeneral. The President has appointed General Osterhaus major-general. There are three or four other vacancies of brigadier awaiting your recommendation to be filled up. E. M. STANTON, WASHINGTON, D. C., July 24, 1864–12 noon. Lieut. Gen. U. S. GRANT, City Point, Va.: The rear of the Sixth Corps got into camp last night; they are being supplied and paid to-day. They will probably begin to embark to-night. Last telegram from Hunter in regard to enemy in the Shenandoah is forwarded.* H. W. HALLECK, Major-General and Chief of Staff. Major-General HALLECK, CITY POINT, VA., July 24, 1864-12 m. Washington, D C.: Your dispatch of 1 p. m. yesterday just received. I presume you had not yet received any dispatch directing the Sixth Corps to be returned here and the Nineteenth Corps retained. I would prefer keeping the Army of the Potomac together if possible, and, if necessary, send all the Nineteenth Corps to Washington. You can retain General Wright until I learn positively what has become of Early. I would prefer a complete smash-up of the enemy's roads about Gordonsville and Charlottesville to having the same force here. If Wright and Hunter can do this job let them do it. Submit the matter to Wright for his views. *See Hunter to Stanton, Vol. XXXVII, Part II, p. 428. If they get out to the railroad every rail ought to be destroyed from Gordonsville back toward Richmond and toward Orange Court-House for miles, and from Charlottesville toward Staunton and toward Lynchburg in the same way. U. S. GRANT, Lieutenant-General GRANT, WASHINGTON, July 24, 1864–8 p. m. City Point, Va.: General Wright, in accordance with your orders, was about to embark for City Point. I have directed him to await your further orders. I shall exercise no further discretion in this matter, but shall carry out such orders as you may give. H. W. HALLECK, Major-General and Chief of Staff. CITY POINT, VA., July 24, 1864-5 p. m. Major-General HALLECK: Special Orders, No. 236, from the Adjutant-General's Office, of date July 13, details Col. A. G. Draper, Thirty-sixth U. S. Colored Troops, as commander of recruiting depot at Fort Monroe, Va. Colonel Draper is very much needed here. I would like to have the order changed, substituting Brigadier-General Wild for Colonel Draper. U. S. GRANT, CITY POINT, VA., July 24, 1864—5.30 p. m. Maj. Gen. H. W. HALLECK: Hon. C. A. DANA, CITY POINT, VA., July 24, 1864-11 a. m. Assistant Secretary of War: How does the pursuit after the enemy sum up? Have they been compelled to drop any of their plunder, and have we killed, captured, and scattered any of their force to speak of? What news have you from Foster? We hear nothing from him except through the papers. All quiet here. A Richmond extra of yesterday claims great victory at Atlanta; capture of a great many prisoners; 22 pieces; killed large number, among whom was celebrated Yankee General McPherson, also Giles A. Smith and T. J. Wood; that Hardee was in Sherman's rear, and they expected that victory would be decisive. Sherman's dis patches of a day later, which, of course, you have seen, place the matter in a very different light, save the death of McPherson. We will make a move here about Tuesday, but which one of two that are in contemplation is not yet fixed upon; when it is I will dispatch you. JNO. A. RAWLINS, Chief of Staff. WASHINGTON, D. C., July 24, 1864-9 p. m. Brigadier-General RAWLINS, City Point, Va.: The pursuit of Early, on the whole, has proved an egregious blunder, relieved only by Averell's success at Winchester, in which he captured four guns and some prisoners. Wright and Crook accomplished nothing, and Wright started back as soon as he got where he might have done something worth while. As it is, Early has got off with the whole of his plunder, and Hunter will hardly be able to break up the railroad beyond what can be repaired in a short time. Had Wright remained in the Valley, the combined forces might have made a sure campaign, at least against the railroad and the crops. We have no news from Foster, nor anything from Atlanta later than Van Duzer's dispatch of 11 p. m. of yesterday. Will you do me the kindness to let me know what is the matter with John Seitz, a baker from this city, who has been or is being tried at City Point for some offense, and to have the execution of the sentence suspended, if it is in any way severe, at least for the present? Chapman and McIntosh have been made brigadiergenerals. The general's previous recommendation had been mislaid and could not be found. McCandless has also been made a brigadier-general. Osterhaus has been made a major-general. Maj. Gen. H. G. WRIGHT, C. A. DANA. HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, Commanding, &c.: Lieutenant-General Grant directs that the Sixth Corps immediately return to the Army of the Potomac. Brigadier-General Emory, with that portion of the Nineteenth Corps here, will report to Major-General Augur. H. W. HALLECK, Major-General and Chief of Staff. SPECIAL ORDERS, WAR DEPT., ADJT. GENERAL'S OFFICE, No. 247. Washington, July 24, 1864. 1. All cavalry detachments, whether mounted or not, from the Army of the Potomac, except those belonging to the First, Third, Sixth, and Eighth Pennsylvania, First New Jersey, and Third Indiana, will be sent back to that army without delay. The regiments mentioned in the foregoing paragraph have been ordered to report to Major-General Augur, to whom all detachments therefrom will also report. * By order of the Secretary of War: * E. D. TOWNSEND, Assistant Adjutant-General. |