Letter
Danl. Butterfield to George Sykes, December 13, 1862
HEADQUARTERS FIFTH ARMY OORPS,
December 13, 1862.
December 13, 1862—4 p. m. General SYKEs:
GENERAL: Major-General Hooker directs that your division be placed on the road in front of the Telegraph road. Your aide, Captain Ryan, has an orderly with him who knows the road.
Yours, DANL. BUTTERFIELD, Brigadier-General.
HEADQUARTERS FIFTH ARMY CoRPS, December 13, 1862—9 p. m. General HUMPHREYS, Commanding Division :
GENERAL: Your command must be supplied with ammunition tonight. You are to relieve or assist Gena Sykes in relieving the ad- vance line of General Couch. If you will report in person or by a staff officer at General Couch’s headquarters, or mine, will inform you as to portons General Sykes will be on the right of the road, you on the e Yours,
very respectfully,
DANL. BUTTERFIELD,
Brigadier-General, Commanding.
WILLCOX's HEADQUARTERS,
Major-General HOOKER : j
Brigadier-General, Commanding.
WILLCOX's HEADQUARTERS,
Major-General HOOKER : j
Editor's Notes
From: Operations in N. Virginia, W. Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, 1862–63. Summary: Brigadier General Butterfield relays Major-General Hooker's orders to position Sykes's division on the Telegraph Road and instructs Humphreys to supply ammunition and assist in relieving Couch's advance line.
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The War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 21
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