Order
T. W. Sherman, September 9, 1861
GENERAL ORDERS, ! HEADQUARTERS U. S. FORCES,
September 9, 1861.
No. 1. New York, September 9, 1861. I. The following-named officers are announced upon the staff of the eommanding officer : Maj. H. G. Wright, U. S. Engineers, chief engineer. quartermaster. Capt. Michael R. Morgan, Commissary oi Subsistence, U. S. Army, ehief commissary. Assistant Surgeon Chas. A. McCall, Medical Department, U. S. Army. I. I. The camp at Hempstead Plains will be designated and known as Camp Winfield Scott. * I. V. Brigadier-General Viele, having been assigned to duty with this command, will take post at Camp Winfield Scott. * Ld .* * * * *
T. W. SHERMAN,
Brigadier-General, Commanding.
Editor's Notes
From: Operations in Kentucky, Tennessee, N. Alabama, S.W. Virginia, 1861–62. Summary: Brigadier-General T. W. Sherman announces staff appointments and designates Hempstead Plains as Camp Winfield Scott, assigning Brigadier-General Viele to command there in September 1861.
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The War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 6
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