HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF
THE POTOMAC,
September 17,
1862 – 1.25 p.m.
Brigadier-General MEADE:
GENERAL: The commanding general directs that you temporarily
assume command of Hooker's corps, and use every effort in your power to
reorganize it and make it serviceable. It is absolutely necessary that the
right should be held, and the troops must be got together and into position for
that purpose as rapidly as possible.
Yours, very
respectfully,
A. V. COLBURN,
Assistant
Adjutant-General.
SOURCE: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of
the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume
19, Part 2 (Serial No. 28), p. 315
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