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all continue, and my purpose to assist you to move steadily forward and plant the old flag in every proud city of the rebellion. O. O. Howard, Major-General. Samuel L. Taggart, Assistant Adjutant-General Order of General Logan. headquarters Fifteenth Army corps, East Point, Ga., September 11, 1864. Officers and Soldiers of the Fifteenth Army Corps: You have borne your part in the accomplishment of the object of this campaign — a part well and faithfully done. On the first day of May, 1864, from Huntsville, Alabama, and its vicinity, you commenced the march. The marches and labors performed by you during this campaign will hardly find a parallel in the history of the war. The proud name heretofore acquired by the Fifteenth corps, for soldierly bearing and daring deeds, remains untarnished, its lustre undimmed. During the campaign you constituted the main portion of the flanking column of the whole army. Your first move against the enemy was around the right of the a