Orders were given to be prepared to move quietly when called upon, and we all layed down for a little sleep.
Orders were given to Gaillard to hold his fire and deliver no direct shot.
I am especially grateful, for the promptness and zeal with which my orders were executed at all times and often under trying and hazardous circumstances.
During the afternoon of the 20th, orders were received to send all sick to the rear and be ready to withdraw quietly at dark.
Yet, at midnight, orders were received to be ready to move at two o'clock in the morning.
Dismounting the two regiments, and sending the lead horses beyond the village, orders were given to have the fires put out.
Custer says in his report that Alger's orders were to stop at the station.
Orders were received to march to the firing line at San Pedro Macati.
When Admiral Dewey destroyed the Spanish fleet in Manila Bay, orders were sent to the 23d Regiment to proceed at once to San Francisco.
We had had but little practice, only being there six days whenorders were received to prepare to leave our post at a moment's notice.
It was generally assumed that such a road could not be made along any of the immigrant roads then in use, and Warner's orders were to look farther north up the Feather River, or some one of its tributaries.
Orders were given to Captain Burton to announce her arrival by firing a national salute, and each morning we listened for the guns from the fort.
On its receipt, orders were at once made for the muster-out of all of Stevenson's regiment, and our military forces were thus reduced to the single company of dragoons at Los Angeles, and the one company of artillery at Monterey.
General Pearson's orders were printed in all the papers, as well as the orders of Thursday night.
It has been said that we were ordered to Torrens, and disobeyed orders in not going there; but the orders I received, in regard to Torrens, came just one week after the orders were sent.
Orders were given by somebody, I don't know who, that four policemen should go on each one of those locomotives.
I telegraphed that my orders were imperative, and that I was coming, provided I could get transportation.
Orders were given to turn the little Prussian army, so as to cut off its retreat.
My orders were to learn and report what was going on on the right, particularly to try and form an idea of the enemy's force in front of M.
Orders were at once issued for the troops not to disembark at Milliken's Bend, but to remain as they were on board the transports.
Orders were issued, on the 1st of December, for a march that night.
As it was now seen that the story of the abandonment of the guns was false, orders were given to pile arms in the village, and to encamp there.
Orders were given to destroy such of the wagons, stores, and ammunition as could not be carried back at once to Fort Cumberland.
Some provisions arriving, orders were given to embark on the next day; but the officers murmured their dissent.
Orders were given to the inhabitants along the way, on pain of imprisonment, to level the snowdrifts and beat the road smooth with ox-teams, as also to provide relays of horses.
Orders were to move cautiously with skirmishers to the front to feel for the enemy.
No orders were issued by my staff, certainly no important orders, except upon consultation with and approval of Sherman.
Orders were given to all the commanders engaged at Shiloh to send in their reports without delay to department headquarters.
Orders were given to make all preparations for assault on the 6th of July.
When the result of the council had been submitted to and approved by the Tien-wang, orders were given to the generals to march at once upon their several destinations.
The affair is thus reported by Secretary Wade:-- "My orders were to inform the rebels that we took no part (?
I directed my village crier to proclaim that my orders were, in the event of the war chief coming to our village to remove us, that not a gun should be fired or any resistance offered.
Orders were at once given to dismount (leaving enough to hold the horses) and charge upon the Indians.
It being then too late to pursue them, orders were given to camp on the battle-ground.
Orders were received to move the station back to some more sheltered position where the wounded could be kept in more security.
Orders were received to move up to Bourelles as soon as it should become dark.
After the customary late breakfast and dinner, orders were received to resume the hike as soon as it became dark.
Lieutenant Marston's orders were to remain out of sight for an hour and then return.
Arnold's orders were simply to wait for the engagement, and only to watch it, unless the British were attacked in overwhelming numbers.
We saw that you had amply avenged yourself, and the Master's orders were not to do anything till you returned.
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