| Headquarters First Army Corps |
| [November --, 1864] |
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| Brig. Gen. M. W. Gary |
| Commanding Cavalry Brigade |
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| General Longstreet directs that you
direct the officer in charge of the company of cavalry from your
brigade, sent sometime since to watch the North Anna and Pamunkey,
to push out a good scouting party beyond the Rappahannock. That portion of the Fifteenth Virginia Cavalry scouting recently
in that direction has been withdrawn, and it has become necessary to
call on your command for this duty. The engineer department are
engaged in removing the iron from the
{Richmond,}
Fredericksburg
& Potomac Railroad, and it is important to have scouts out to give
notice of the approach of the enemy. |
| I am, general, very respectfully, your obedient
servant, |
| Osman Latrobe |
| Assistant Adjutant-General |
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