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

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SPECIAL FIELD ORDERS, HDQRS. DEPT. OF THE CUMBERLAND, Numbers 115.
Nashville, Tenn., May 2, 1865.

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III. Brigadier General S. Meredith, U. S. Volunteers, is hereby relieved from the command of the District of Western Kentucky, and will report by letter to the Adjutant-General of the Army for orders.

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VI. The One hundred and eighty-sixth Ohio Infantry is hereby transferred from the Second Brigade, Second Separate Division, Army of the Cumberland, to the Second Brigade, First Separate Division, Army of the Cumberland.

VII. The Twenty-ninth Indiana Infantry is hereby transferred from the Second Brigade, First Separate Division, Army of the Cumberland, to the Second Brigade, Second Separate Division, Army of the Cumberland.

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X. Brigadier General L. P. Bradley, U. S. Volunteers,is hereby relieved from duty as a member of general court-martial convened to meet at this place by Special Field Orders, Numbers 42, paragraph 12, current series, from these headquarters, and will report to Major General D. S. Stanley, commanding Fourth Army Corps.

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By command of Major-General Thomas:

SOUTHARD HOFFMAN,

Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.


SPECIAL ORDERS, HEADQUARTERS CAVALRY CORPS, MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI, Numbers 67.
Macon, Ga., May 2, 1865.

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III. Under the provisions of the convention agreed upon between Major-General Sherman and General Johnston on the 26th of April, Major M. H. Williams is designated to receive the surrender of the Confederate troops at Milledgeville. He will proceed to the point without delay for the purpose of carrying out the terms of the convention.

IV. Major McBurney, ordnance officer, Cavalry Corps, Military Division of the Mississippi, will proceed to Milledgeville to receive the ordnance, ordnance stores, and other stores at that place and direct their transportation to Macon.

By command of Brevet Major-General Wilson:

E. B. BEAUMONT,
Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.


HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND,

Nashville, May 2, 1865-12 m.

Brigadier-General HATCH,

Eastport:

Have received your dispatches of the 30th ultimo, making application for payment of your troops, and also reporting operations of Captain Danley and his steamer. The Paymaster-General has telegraphed me that he will have all the troops in the Department of the Cumberland paid as soon as he gets the necessary funds, which he is expecting to


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