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

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HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE,
Louisville, Ky., June 14, 1865.

Major General WILLIAM B. HAZEN,

Commanding Fifteenth Army Corps:

GENERAL: I am directed by the general commanding to request you to hold the Second Division of your corps in readiness for shipment to Arkansas in accordance with instructions from the lieutenant-general. You will please take steps to secure the early payment of these troops and will please report the exact date that they will be ready to move.

I am, general, very respectfully,

MAX. WOODHULL,

Assistant Adjutant-General.


HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE,
Lousville, Ky., June 14, 1865.

Major-General BLAIR,

Commanding Seventeenth Army Corps:

GENERAL: I am directed by the general commanding to request you to hold in readiness for immediate shipment to Saint Louis, Mo., to report to Major-General Pope, commanding Military Division of the Missouri, one brigade of your corps. As soon as you have made selection of the brigade to be sent, please report its designation to army headquarters. The general commanding further request that you will take steps to have the troops paid as soon as possible.

I am, general, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

MAX WOODHULL,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

NASHVILLE, TENN., June 14, 1865.

Major General J. E. SMITH,

Memphis:

Orders have already gone to Memphis for the cavalry to move. They must soon arrive.

WM. D. WHIPPLE,

Brigadier-General.


SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. THIRTEENTH ARMY CORPS, Numbers 75.
Mobile, Ala., June 14, 1865.

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2. Major S. O. Lewis, Eleventh Illinois Volunteers, is hereby relieved from duty as provost-marshal of the Post and District of Mobile, and will report to Lieutenant Colonel R. G. Laughlin, Ninety-fourth Illinois Volunteers, provost-marshal-general of the corps without delay for duty.

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By order of Major-General Granger:

F. W. EMERY,
Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.


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