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

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L. Dicken, Forty-seventh Indiana Infantry, surgeon-in-chief; Major S. O. Lewis, Eleventh Illinois Infantry, provost-marshal; Captain C. H. Thompson, commissary of subsistence; Captain E. P. Taylor, Second Arkansas Infantry, acting assistant quartermaster; Captain Joseph Rankin, Twenty-seventh Wisconsin Infantry, acting assistant inspector-general; Captain W. J. Edwards, Sixth Michigan Heavy Artillery, acting engineer; Lieutenant J. L. Baker, Twenty-third Wisconsin Infantry, assistant commissary of musters; Captain J. T. Reed, Twenty-fifth Indiana Veteran Volunteers, aide-de-camp.

By order of Brigadier General J. C. Veatch:

R. G. CURTIS,

Captain and Assistant Adjutant-General.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. SIXTEENTH ARMY CORPS, No. 5. New Orleans, La., March 8, 1865.

The organization of the inspector-general's department within this corps is announced as follows, and the officers designated below are authorized to make inspections and recommend the disposal of public property within the command to which they are assigned, in accordance with existing regulations and orders:

Sixteenth Army Corps: Major J. J. Lyon, Twenty-first Missouri Veteran Volunteers, acting assistant inspector-general; First Lieutenant J. B. Comstock, Twenty-first Missouri Veteran Volunteers, acting assistant inspector-general. First Division-Major H. B. Strait, Ninth Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, acting assistant inspector-general; Captain E. H. Kennedy, Tenth Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, acting assistant inspector-general. Second Division-Major R. W. Healy, Fifty-eighth Illinois Infantry Volunteers, acting assistant inspector-general; First Lieutenant R. Rees, Twenty-first Missouri Veteran Volunteers, acting assistant inspector-general. Third Division-Major C. B. Loop, Ninety-fifth Illinois Infantry Volunteers, acting assistant inspector-general; Captain W. L. Scott, Thirty-third Wisconsin Volunteers, acting assistant inspector-general. Artillery Brigade-First Lieutenant A. H. Mattox, Seventeenth Ohio Battery, acting assistant inspector-general.

By command of Major General A. J. Smith:

J. HOUGH,

Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.


SPECIAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS SEPARATE BRIGADE, No. 19. Carrollton, La., March 8, 1865.

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II. The commanding officer Second Illinois Cavalry will cause sixty men and horses from his regiment, provided with three days' cooked rations and forage, to proceed at once to Greenville and embark on board the steamer General Sedgwick, lying there, for Pensacola, Fla.

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By order of Brigadier-General Lucas:

E. V. HITCH,
Captain and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.


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