The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Series 1, Volume 42, In Three Parts. Part 2, Correspondence, etc. Page: 59
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CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.-UNION.
HEADQUARTERS NINTH ARMY CORPS,
August 5, 1864-6.30 p. m.
General HUMPHREYS :
Part of it is. I have sent out to see. We heard no musketry here.
A. E. BURNSIDE,
Major- General.
HEADQUARTERS NINTH ARMY CORPS,
August 5, 1864-7.45 p. m.
General I HUMPHREYS :
The enemy exploded a mine in front of General Ames' division. The
understanding is the mine exploded short and did not reach our works
or do any damage. Firing started at once and extended to our First
Division front, but amounted to very little.
A. E. BURNSIDE,
Major- General.
HEADQUARTERS NINTH ARMY CORPS,
August 5, 1864-9 p. m.
General WILLIAMS,
Assistant Adjutant- General:
I have the honor to report that nothing of importance has occurred
on my front during the past twelve hours. New abatis has been cut
and will be laid to-night. All the information we have in regard to the
firing this afternoon has already been given.
A. E. BURNSIDE,
Major- General.
GENERAL ORDERS, HDQRS. FIRST DIV., NINTH ARMY CORPS,
No. 38. August 5, 1864.
I. By direction of major-general commanding the Ninth Corps I
hereby assume the command of First Division, Ninth Army Corps.
II. The following are announced as forming, until further orders, the
staff of this division, and will be obeyed and respected accordingly:
Capt. C. J. Mills, Fifty-sixth Massachusetts Volunteers, acting assistant
adjutant-general; Maj. S. Hovey, jr., Twenty-first Massachusetts Vol-
unteers, division inspector; Surg. M. K. Hogan, U. S. Volunteers,
surgeon-in-chief; Capt. J. S. Tobey, Thirty-fifth Massachusetts Volun-
teers, acting assistant quartermaster; Capt. T. Y. England, U. S.
Volunteers, commissary of subsistence; Capt. J. W. Hudson, Thirty-
fifth Massachusetts Volunteers, engineer officer; Capt. George C. Parker,
Twenty-first Massachusetts Volunteers, provost-marshal; Capt. E. R.
Lewis, Twenty-first Massachusetts Volunteers, acting ordnance officer.
JULIUS WHITE,
Brigadier-General, U. S. Volunteers.
HEADQUARTERS FIRST DIVISION, NINTH ARMY CORPS,
Before Petersburg, Va., August 5, 1864-8 p. m.
Lieut. Col. L. RICHMOND,
Assistant Adjutant-General, Ninth Army Corps:
COLONEL: I have the honor to report that everything has been quiet
along my line during the past twelve hours, except that immediately59
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