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403 Series I Volume XLIX-II Serial 104 - Mobile Bay Campaign Part II

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boat will commence receiving it. You will provide at least five days' rations for men and forage for horses. You will turn over to Lieutenant I. N. Mitchell, acting assistant quartermaster, Artillery Corps, Department of the Gulf, what unserviceable horses you may have. Upon your arrival at Mobile you will report to Brigadier-General Totten, chief of artillery and ordnance, Military Division of West Mississippi.

By command of Major-General Hurlbut:

DANL. WEBSTER,

Captain First Wis. Baty., Actg. Chief of Arty., Dept. of the Gulf.

SPECIAL
HEADQUARTERS THIRD DIVISION, FIELD ORDERS,
THIRTEENTH ARMY CORPS, Numbers 17.
Whisler, Ala., April 18, 1865.

This command will march at 6 a. m. to-morrow in the following order: Fourth Tennessee Cavalry, pioneer company, Third Brigade, Twenty-first New York Battery, Second Brigade, Twenty-sixth New York Battery, First Brigade; division train in same order as the troops' supply train. Rear guard of one regiment to be detailed by the commanding officer of the First Brigade.

By order of Brigadier General W. P. Bento:

JOHN A. PRINDLE,

Lieutenant and Aide-de-Camp.


SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. THIRD DIV., 13TH ARMY CORPS, Numbers 34.
Whistler, Ala., April 18, 1865.

1. The Twenty-eight Regiment Illinois Volunteers will not move with this division to-morrow, but will remain at Whistler and will take charge of the railroad and machine-shops. The commanding officer of that regiment will detail a company to relieve the company of the Twenty-eight Wisconsin Volunteers (now on duty at the depot) at 5 a. m. to-morrow. Until further orders he will report direct to the headquarters of the Thirteenth Army Corps.

2. Company D, Twenty-eight Wisconsin Volunteers, is relieved from its present duties and will rejoin that regiment at 5 a. m. to-morrow.

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By order of Brigadier General W. P. Benton:

J. D. ROUSE,
Captain and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

CIRCULAR.] HEADQUARTERS SIXTEENTH ARMY CORPS,

In the Field, Ala., April 18, 1865.

The major-general commanding directs that the troops of command take up the line of march to-morrow, 19th, in the following order: First, cavalry at 7.30 a. m., second First Division at 6. 30 a. m., third, pontoniers at 6.30 a. m., fourth, Second Division at 6.30 a. m.; fifth, Third Division at 8 a. m., in charge of supply train.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

J. HOUGH,

Lieutenant-Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.


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