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

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Heavy Artillery, is announced as acting assistant adjutant-general; Lieuts. William A. Winsell and Alfred P. Thornton as aides-de-camp.

H. M. JUDAN,

Brigadier-General of Volunteers, Commanding.


SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DISTRICT OF THE EATOWAH, Numbers 53.
Chattanooga, Tenn., May 16, 1865.

II. Colonel c. H. Grosvenor, commanding Eighteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry is hereby assigned to the temporary command of the post of Chattanooga. He will enter upon the discharge of the duties of the office forthwith.

III. Battery I, First Ohio Light Artillery, and detachment of First Georgia U. S. Volunteer Infantry, stationed at Dalton, Ga., a hereby temporarily attached to the Second Brigade, Second Separate Division, Army of the Cumberland, and will hereafter report to the commanding officer of that brigade.

By command of Brigadier General H. M. Judah:

HAVERY OFFICER,
Captain and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS POST, Numbers 5.
Chattanooga, Tenn., May 16, 1865.

Pursuant to the order of Brigadier General H. M. Judah, commanding District of the Eatowah, dated Chattanooga, Tenn., May 16, 1865, I hereby assume temporary command of this post.

CHAS. H. GROSVENOR,

Colonel Eighteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry.

RESACA, GA., May 16, 1865.

Brigadier General H. M. JUDAH:

I will advise you at once of the coming of Jeff. Davis to this place, and the time of this departure. I received your dispatch and shall obey promptly.

H. F. SICKLES,

Colonel, Commanding.

NASHVILLE, May 16, 1865.

Major-General MILROY:

In accordance with orders heretofore published of the major-general commanding the Department of the Cumberland, Champ Ferguson and his gang of cut-throats having refused to surrender are denounced as outlaws, and the military forces of this district will deal with and treat them accordingly.

By command of Major-General Rousseau:

H. C. WHITTEMORE,

Captain and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.


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