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GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. FIFTEENTH ARMY CORPS, Numbers 37.
Wahsington City, May 31, 1865.

In order to comply with General Orders, Numbers 264, dated War Department, Adjutant-General's Office, May 29, 1865, Bvt. Brigadier General J. S. Martin will take command of all regiments and detachments belonging to this corps, which be mustered out under the provisions of telegraphic order dated War Department, Adjutant-General's Office, May 18, 1865, and will see that all regiments, as fast as mustered, in compliance with circular of May 29, from headquarters Military Division of the Mississippi, are placed en route for their respective rendezvous. Detachments of men so mustered and belonging to regiments that remin in the field will be placed in charge of an officer belonging to the first regiment from the same State that leaves comp from the rendezvous. Commanding officers of the following regiments will report to Bvt. Brigadier General J. S. Martin for orders: Twenty-fifth Iowa Infantry Volunteers, Twenty-sixth Iowa Infanrty Volunteers, Thirtieth Iowa Infantry Volunteers, Ninety-seventh Indiana Infanrty Volunteers. One hundredth Indiana Infantry Volunteers, Twenty-seventh Missouri Volunteers, Twenty-ninth Missouri Infantry Volunteers, Twelfth Indiana Infantry Volunteers, Sixty-sixth Indiana Infantry Volunteers, Thirty-ninth Iowa Infantry Volunteers, One hundred and sixteenth Illinois Infantry Volunteers, One hundred ane eleventh Illinois Infantry Volunteers, One hundred and twenty-seventh Illinois Infantry Volunteers, Eighty-third Indiana Infantry Volunteers, Ninety-nith Indiana Infantry Volunteers, Ninetieth Illinois Infantry Volunteers.

By order of Major General William B. Hazen:

H. N. WHEELER,

Assistant Adjutant-General.


SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. SEVENTEENTH ARMY CORPS, Numbers 138.
Washington, D. C., May 31, 1865.

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III.

4. As soon as the Fifteenth Army Corps have embarked this command will commence moving in the following order: First, First Division, Bvt. Major General M. F. Force; second, Third Division, Bvt. Major General M. D. Leggett; third, Foruth Division, Brigadier General W. W. Belknap.

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By command of Major General F. P. Blair:

C. CADLE, JR.,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. SECOND Brigadier, FIRST DIV., Numbers 22.
FOURTEENTH ARMY CORPS, Near Washington, D. C., May 31, 1865.

Captain T. G. Stevenson, Twenty-first Michigan Volunteers Infantry, is hereby relieved, at his own request, from duty at these headquarters as acting assistant adjutant-general, and will report to his regimental commander for duty. Captain Lewis E. Hicks, Sixty-ninth Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry, is hereby announced as acting assistant adjutant-general, Second Brigade, and will be obeyed and repected accrodingly.

GEO. P. BUELL,

Brevet Brigadier-General, Commanding.


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