II. the records of the Third Brigade will be at once completed and forwarded to the Adjutant-General of the U. S. Army.

III. All other regiments now in the division and not included in the above organizationa will complete all returns, &c., due the headquarters of their old brigade organizations and report while remaining with the division direct to these headquarters.

IV. All publict preperty now in possession of the acting assistant guartermaster, acting commissary of subsistence, or other officer at the headquarters of the Third Brigade, will be turned over to the proper officers at once.

V. To these officers and men of the division who are about being separated from it the general commanding desires to express his thanks mfor their uniform courtesy toward him since assuming command of the division and his at separating from them, but congratulates them on their prospect of soon being with friends at home.

By order of Bvt. Major General c. C. Walsutt:

J. E. EDMONDS,

Brevet Major and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

RALEIGH, June 7, 1865.

(Received 9 p. m.)

Major-General COX,

Greensborough:

I will go to Greensborough to-morrow, and perhaps to Salisbury a Charlotte the next day. Will start from here about 8 o'clock in the morning.

J. M. SCHOFIELD,

Major-General.

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE OHIO,
Raleigh, June 7, 1865.

Brigadier General C. J. PAINE,

New Berne:

Permit your troops to remain at Smitfield until they can be relieved by those sent General Hawley from Wilmington.

By order of Major-General Schofield:

J. A. CAMPBELL,

Lieutenant-Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.