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

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HDQRS. ARMY AND DIVISION OF WEST MISSISSIPPI,
Mobile, Ala., May 30, 1865

Lieutenant Colonel C. T. CHRISTENSEN,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

Your telegram in regard to Governor Clark was immediately transmitted to Colonel Johnson, who acknowledged receipt of the dispatch last evening. This morning I received the following telegram from him;

MACON, May 30, 1865

Major FREDBERG,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

I hold Governor Clark on his written parole of honor not to absent himself from this post.

ALFRED FREDBERG,

Major and Assistant Adjutant-General

NEW ORLEANS, May 30, 1865

Major A. FREDBERG,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

General Smith telegraphed that Governor Moore and Judge Gayle, of Alabama, will probably arrive to-day at Mobile. Send them to this city by first opportunity [under] a strong guard.

C. T. CHRISTENSEN,

Lieutenant-Colonel.

MOBILE, May 30, 1865

Lieutenant-Colonel CHRISTENSEN:

Your telegram of this date relating to Governor Moore and Judge Gayle has been received. As soon as they arrive they will be forwarded as directed.

ALFRED FREDBERG,

Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.


SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. MIL. DIV. OF WEST MISSISSIPPI, Numbers 146.
New Orleans, La., May 30, 1865.

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11. Captain M. D. Massie, Ninety-ninth Illinois Volunteers, is hereby relieved from duty with his regiment and will report to Brigadier General J. R. Slack, commanding First Brigade First Division, Thirteenth Army Corps, for duty as acting assistant adjutant-general.

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By order of Major General E. R. S. Canby;

C. H. DYER,
Captain and Assistant Adjutant-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. THIRTEENTH ARMY CORPS, Numbers 63.
Mobile, Ala., May 30, 1865

1. The Twenty-first New York Battery is hereby detached from the division. The commanding officer will immediately report to Brigadier General James Totten, chief of artillery, Army and Division of West Mississippi.


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