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846 Series I Volume XLIX-I Serial 103 - Mobile Bay Campaign Part I

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GENERAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS SECOND DIVISION, SIXTEENTH ARMY CORPS, Numbers 29.
Chalmette, La., March 5, 1865.

The following is announced as the organization of the brigades of this division:

First Brigade: Twenty-first Missouri Volunteers, Eighty-ninth Indiana Volunteers, One hundred and nineteenth Illinois Volunteers, One hundred and twenty-second Illinois Volunteers.

Second Brigade: Sixth Minnesota Volunteers, Tenth Kansas Volunteers, Twenty-seventh Iowa Volunteers, Thirty-second Iowa Volunteers, One hundred and seventeenth Illinois Volunteers.

Third Brigade: Eleventh Wisconsin Volunteers, Thirty-fourth New Jersey Volunteers, Fifty-second Indiana Volunteers, Fifty-eighth Illinois Volunteers, One hundred and seventy-eighth New York Volunteers.

By order of Brigadier General K. Garrard:

J. B. SAMPLE,

Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.


SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. SECOND DIV., 16TH ARMY CORPS, Numbers 47.
Near New Orleans, La., March 5, 1865.

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II. The Eleventh Regiment Wisconsin Volunteers, having been assigned to this division, is attached to the Third Brigade. Colonel Charles L. Harris, of that regiment, by virtue of his rank, will assume command of the brigade.

By order of Brigadier General K. Garrard:

J. B. SAMPLE,
Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.

CIRCULAR.] HDQRS. SECOND DIVISION, 16TH ARMY CORPS,

Near New Orleans, La., March 5, 1865.

The First Division of his corps having moved, the Second Division will be the next in order, and will probably receive marching orders to-morrow or next day. The transports will be assigned the brigades, and they will embark in the following order: Second Brigade, Third, and First. As it will not be practicable to move any land transportation with the troops, all their baggage will be taken, that the teams may be left empty.

By order of Brigadier General K. Garrard:

J. B. SAMPLE,

Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.

CIRCULAR.] HDQRS. SECOND DIVISION, 16TH ARMY CORPS,

Chalmette, La., March 5, 1865.

The transports will be ready for the embarkation of this division at an early hour to-morrow morning; the troops will be held in readiness to embark, taking five days' rations, including to-morrow. All officers and enlisted men will be kept in camp, as the entire command will embark to-morrow. The commanding officer of the First Brigade will


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