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Unknown to Godfrey Weitzel, March 19, 1865
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT,
March 19, 1865.
March 19, 1865. Major-General WEITZEL:
On the Bermuda front the order promising pay for arms and horses has been circulated with kites, bows and arrows, and newspapers. The cross of deserters from the division there is about twenty-five a night. There is no reason why the same cross should not be reached on the north of the James. You will take every measure to circulate the order at once and daily.
(Same to General Gibbon and Colonel West.)
Editor's Notes
From: Operations in Northern Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, Pt. 1. Summary: A military commander instructs Major-General Weitzel to circulate an order promising pay for arms and horses to reduce desertion rates on the Bermuda front during the Civil War.
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The War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 46, Part 1
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