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place. From there to Louisville water transportation should be used as far as it is obtainable, and the necessary requisitions for it made by telegraph upon General Allen, chief quartermaster at Louisville. Your chief commissary should also be required to go to Parkesburg and there see to the supplying of the troops during your movement.

By command of Lieutenant-General Grant:

T. S. BOWERS,

Assistant Adjutant-General.


SPECIAL ORDERS,
WAR DEPT., ADJT. GENERAL'S OFFICE, Numbers 268.
Washington May 31, 1865.

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93. Brigadier General Edward A. Wold, U. S. Volunteers, will report to Brevet Major-General Saxton, U. S. Volunteers, assistant commissioner of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, for duty in Georgia under his direction.

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By order of the Secretary of War:

E. D. TOWNSEND,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE, Numbers 67.
Washington, D. C., May 31, 1865.

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X. Lieutenant Colonel C. C. Carpenter, commissary of subsistence, will proceed in advance of the army to Louisville, Ky., and make arrangements, as far as his department is concerned, for the reception of the troops on their arrival.

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XV. The chief quartemaster and acting chief commissary of the Army of the Tennessee will at once proceed to Parkersburg, W. Va., to assistant the transporting of the army to Louisville, Ky. On completing arrangements for reshipment of the troops they will report to the commanding general at Louisville, Ky.

By order of Major General John A. Logan:

MAX. WOODHULL,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. FIFTEENTH ARMY CORPS, Numbers 36.
Washington, D. C., May 31, 1865.

In compliance with circular from the War Department, Adjutant-General's Office, dated May 29, 1865 (copy accompanying), the batteries of artillery will, as soon as they arriver at Louisville, be sent, under charge of their proper officers, to the rendezvous of the States from which they were enlisted, and there to be musterd out and discharged, as provided for in the circular. Division commanders are charged with the compt execution of this order.

By order of Major General William B. Hazen:

H. N. WHEELER,

Assistant Adjutant-General.


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