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and arrived at Washington at three P. M. The Ninth New-Jersey volunteers arrived by boat from Hill's Point at five P. M. Left on steamer Escort for Newbern, N. C., on the twentieth, and reached here at six A. M. on the twenty-first.
I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
C. A. Heckman, Brigadier-General Commanding Brigade. To Lieutenant-Colonel S. Hoffman, Acting Adjutant-General Eighteenth Army Corps.