Letter
John G. Parke to Joseph Hooker, December 8, 1862
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAO,
December 8, 1862.
December 8, 1862. Major-General HOOKER, Commanding Center Grand Division :
GENERAL: The commanding general directs that you will please have issued to each of the following-named battery commanders the accompanying order, and take the necessary steps to have it executed : Captain Waterman, Battery C, First Rhode Island Artillery, Griffin’s division; Captain Huntington, Battery H, First Ohio Artillery, Birney’s division.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
JNO. G. PARKE,
Ohief of Staff.
[Sub-inclosure. Tho COMMANDING OFFICER,
Battery
Ohief of Staff.
[Sub-inclosure. Tho COMMANDING OFFICER,
Battery
Snz: You will leave your camp, with two days' grain forage, at such
an hour on Wednesday, the 10th instant, as to reach the open space be.
tween the Phillips house (headquarters of Major-General Sumner) and
the Falmouth and Belle Plain road-at sunset. You will report to Colonel Tompkins, First Rhode Island Artillery. You will be careful not to
an hour on Wednesday, the 10th instant, as to reach the open space be.
tween the Phillips house (headquarters of Major-General Sumner) and
the Falmouth and Belle Plain road-at sunset. You will report to Colonel Tompkins, First Rhode Island Artillery. You will be careful not to
Editor's Notes
From: Operations in N. Virginia, W. Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, 1862–63. Summary: John G. Parke orders Major-General Hooker to instruct specified artillery battery commanders to relocate their units by December 10 to a designated position near Major-General Sumner's headquarters for operational purposes.
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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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