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A. A. HUMPHREYS ARMY CORPS artillery Assistant Adjutant-General Baltimore Battery bridge Brig brigade Brigadier-General BUTTERFIELD camp Capt Captain Chambersburg Chief of Staff Colonel command of Major-General Commanding Officer Creek D. H. HILL D. N. COUCH DANL DEPARTMENT dispatch division E. M. STANTON Eleventh Corps Emmitsburg enemy enemy's Fifth Corps force Ford Fort Monroe Frederick G. K. WARREN General-in-Chief Gettysburg guard H. W. HALLECK Hagerstown Harper's Ferry Harrisburg HDQRS HEADQUARTERS ARMY HEADQUARTERS CAVALRY CORPS Heintzelman HOOKER infantry July July 12 June 15 Lieut Major-General major-general commanding directs Major-General COUCH Major-General Meade Major-General SCHENCK Maryland Heights miles Monocacy morning move obedient servant p. m. Commanding p. m. Major-General pickets PLEASONTON Poolesville Potomac railroad rebel regiments respectfully river road ROBT RUFUS INGALLS scouts Secretary Secretary of War sent Sixth Corps Stahel telegraph to-day to-morrow to-night train troops Virginia Volunteers wagons Warrenton Washington WILLIAMS yesterday York
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Page 374 - As a soldier, in obeying this order, an order totally unexpected and unsolicited, I have no promises or pledges to make. The country looks to this army to relieve it from the devastation and disgrace of a hostile invasion. Whatever fatigues and sacrifices we may be called upon to undergo, let us have In view constantly the magnitude of the interests involved, and let each man determine to do his duty, leaving to an all-controlling Providence the decision• of the contest.
Page 136 - President of the United States, and commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States, do hereby appoint William W. Holden provisional governor of the State of North Carolina...
Page 374 - By direction of the President of the United States, I hereby assume command of the Army of the Potomac. As a soldier, in obeying this order — an order totally unexpected and unsolicited — I have no promises or pledges to make. The country looks to this army to relieve it from the devastation and disgrace of the hostile invasion.
Page 913 - If you find that he is moving northward and that two brigades can guard the Blue Ridge and take care of your rear, you can move with the other three into Maryland and take position on General Ewell's right, place yourself in communication with him, guard his flank and keep him informed of the enemy's movements, and collect all the supplies you can for the use of the army.
Page 374 - The sorrow of parting with the comrades of so many battles is relieved by the conviction that the courage and devotion of this army will never cease nor fail ; that it will yield to my successor, as it has to me, a willing and hearty support.
Page 426 - Corps and other commanders are authorized to order the instant death of any soldier who fails in his duty at this hour.
Page 437 - I really think the attitude of the enemy's army in Pennsylvania presents us the best opportunity we have had since the war began. I think you will not see the foe in New Jersey. I beg you to be assured that no one out of my position can know so well as if he were in it the difficulties and involvements of replacing General McClellan in command, and this aside from any imputations upon him. Please accept my sincere thanks for what you have done and are doing to get troops forward.
Page 519 - The Commanding General, in behalf of the country, thanks the Army of the Potomac for the glorious result of the recent operations. Our enemy, superior in numbers and flushed with the pride of a successful invasion, attempted to overcome or destroy this army.
Page 461 - If you think the ground and position there a better one to fight a battle under existing circumstances, you will so advise the General, and he will order all the troops up. You know the General's views, and General Warren, who is fully aware of them, has gone out to see General Reynolds.
Page 169 - States, by his proclamation of the 15th instant, calling into the" service of the Government the militia of several of the States now threatened with invasion by the insurgents in arms against the Union, has designated ten thousand men as the quota of Maryland, required for the special purpose of protecting her own soil, it becomes us...