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regiments. The Two hundred and first will be sent to Fort Delaware, and the Two hundred and second to the coal regions of Pennsylvania. The commanding officer of the Two hundred and second will assign two of his companies to duty with the Two hundred and first. Please direct the commanding officer of the Two hundred and second to report here immediately.

Respectfully,

A. E. KING,

Assistant Adjutant-General.


HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF ALEXANDRIA,
May 27, 1865.

Lieutenant Colonel A. E. KING,

Assistant Adjutant-General, Washington, D. C.:

The Two hundred and second Pennsylvania is on the way from Fairfax. It will reach here this evening, and will be sent to Washington by rail immediately.

JNO. G. PARKE,

Major-General.


HEADQUARTERS MIDDLE MILITARY DIVISION,
May 27, 1865.

Brevet Major-General TORBERT,

Commanding, Winchester, Va.:

The major-general commanding wishes you to send the Ninety-first Ohio to Harper's Ferry, and the Thirteenth West Virginia to Grafton, the first to report to General Stevenson, the latter to General Emory.

C. H. MORGAN,

Brigadier-General of Volunteers and Chief of STaff.

WAR DEPARTMENT, ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE,

Washington, May 27, 1865.

Major General J. A. DIX,

Commanding Department of the East, New York City:

SIR: If you have prohibited the sale of photograph likenesses of J. Wilkes Booth the Secretary of War directs that the prohibition be removed.

I am, &c.,

E. D. TOWNSEND,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

(Same to Major General George Cadwalader, commanding Department of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa., and Major General Lew. Wallace, commanding Middle Department, Baltimore, Md.)

GENERAL ORDERS,
WAR DEPART., ADJT., GENERAL'S OFFICE,


No. 99.
Washington, May 28, 1865.

I. In order to recruit the ranks of the regular regiments as soon as practicable, the Adjutant-General will open recruiting stations at such points as offer as reasonable prospect of enlisting good men.


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