Head Quarters 2^d Division 12^th Army Corps

Near Dumfries, Va. December 16. 1862

 

Circular.

                        The entire command will be in readiness to march, in obedience to orders from Corps HeadQuarters, at half past (6) six o'clock to-morrow morning: The following will be the order of march, to be continued daily in pursuance of Brigade rotation specified in "Circular" of December 9^th, 1862, these H^d Qrs.:

 

                        Forty (40) Cavalry

                        Grand Guards

                        Pioneers

                        Four (4) guns Hampton's Battery

                        One (1) Regiment 2^nd Brigade

                        Two (2) guns Hampton's Battery

                        Brigade Ambulances

                        Ammunition train

                        Division train

                        Two (2) Regiments 2^nd Brigade to march equidistant

                                                between the trains

                        Knap's Penn'a Battery

                        1^st Brigade

                        Brigade Ambulances

                        Five Regiments 3^d Brigade

                        Brigade Ambulances

                                                                                                (over) /

                        6^th Maine Battery

                        One (1) Regiment 3^rd Brigade

                        Provost-guard

                        Twenty-five (25) cavalry, one (1) mile in rear.

 

            When the other brigades assume the advance in turn, their main body, with the exception of two regiments dividing the train, will follow the four guns of their batteries, according to the above order of march.

 

                                                                        By command of

                                                                                    Brig. Gen. Jno. W. Geary

                                                                                                Comm'd'g Division

                                                                                                Tho^s H. Elliott

                                                                                                            Capt. & A.A.G.

Capt. G. M. Elliott

            Ordnance Officer

 

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