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Fourteenth and Twentieth Army Corps. Squads from the Army of the Tennessee and Twenty-third Army Corps shold go. I can send another strong regiment, if needed. Please answer.

SOUTHARD HOFFMAN.

[In general's absence.]

CHATTANOOGA, February 22, 1865.

Major S. HOFFMAN,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

General Steedman will be in Nashville to-morrow. I will see that the troops of the Fourteenth and Twentieth Army Corps are relieved at once. But one regiment [the One hundred and forty-ninth Illinois] has reported. How many in all have been ordered here?

Respectfully,

S. B. MOE,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

GENERAL ORDERS, HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF KENTUCKY, Numbers 2. Louisville, Ky., February 22, 1865.

In accordance with directions from the War Department, Bvt. Major General S. G. Burbridge is hereby relieved from the command of the District of Kentucky, and is "ordered to report to Major-General Thomas, commanding Department of the Cumberland, for duty in the field." His staff will accompany him. The records of the district will at once be sent to these headquarters.

By command of Major-General Palmer:

G. M. BASCOM,

Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.

GENERAL ORDERS, HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF KENTUCKY, No. 3. Louisville, Ky., February 22, 1865.

The following-named officers are assigned to duty and announced as members of the department staff: Lieutenant Colonel F. F.. Flint, Seventh U. S. Infantry, chief commissary of musters; Lieutenant Colonel W. H. Coyl, Ninth Iowa Infantry, acting judge-advocate; Surg. A. J. Phelps, U. S. Volunteers, medical director; Captain J. P. Watson, One hundred and tenth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, aide-de-camp; they will be respected accordingly.

By command of Major-General Palmer:

G. M. BASCOM,

Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.

LEXINGTON, KY., February 22, 1865.

Brigadier-General HOBSON,

Campbellsville, Ky.:

Nothing new. Rumored you are ordered to front. Is it so?

J. S. BUTLER,

Assistant Adjutant-General.


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