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1037 Series I Volume XLIX-II Serial 104 - Mobile Bay Campaign Part II

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LOUISVILLE, June 26, 1865.

(Received 1 a. m. 27th.)

Lieutenant Colonel T. S. BOWERS,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

I have the honor to report that the Second Division, Fifteenth Army Corps, has been sent to Arkansas, and the Second Brigade, Fourth Divison, Seventeenth Army Corps, to Saint Louis, Mo., as directed in General Grant's telegram of the 12th instant.

Respectfully,

JNO. A. LOGAN,

Major-General.


SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE, Numbers 83. Louisville, Ky., June 26, 1865.

I. The troops formerly belonging to the Army of the Potomac that have reported to these headquarters under the command of Bvt. Brigadier General Henry A. Morrow, U. S. Volunteers, in accordance with paragraph 10, Special Orders, Numbers 274, current series, Adjutant-General's Office, are hereby organized into a provisional division, to be styled the Provisional Division of the Army of the Tennessee, to the command of which Brevet Brigadier-General Morrow is assigned. The division will consist of two brigades, as follows:

First Brigade, Colonel John Pulford, Fifth Michigan Veteran Volunteers, commanding: First Minnesota Veteran Volunteers, Lieutenant Colonel Mark W. Downie commanding; Seventh Michigan Veteran Volunteers, Lieutenant Colonel G. W. La Point commanding; thirty-sixth Wisconsin Volunteers, Lieutenant Colonel C. E. Warner commanding; Seventh Wisconsin Veteran Volunteers, Lieutenant Colonel H. Richardson commanding; Fifth Michigan Veteran Volunteers, Colonel ---- commanding.

Second Brigade, Colonel J. A. Kellogg, Sixth Wisconsin Veteran Volunteers, commanding: First Michigan Veteran Volunteers, Lieutenant Colonel George Lockey commanding; Sixth Wisconsin Veteran Volunteers, Colonel

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commanding; Twentieth Indiana Veteran Volunteers, Lieutenant Colonel A. S. Andrews commanding; Sixteenth Michigan Veteran Volunteers, Colonel B. F. Partridge commanding; Fourth Battalion Ohio Veteran Volunteers, Lieutenant Colonel Sewell W. De Witt commanding.

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By command of Major General John A. Logan:

MAX. WOODHULL,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

HDQRS. FIRST DIVISION, SIXTEENTH ARMY CORPS,

Selma, Ala., June 26, 1865.

Colonel J. F. MARSH,

Commanding, Marion, Ala.:

COLONEL: I am instructed to request you to send five companies from your command, under command of Lieutenant Colonel W. Markham, to Tuscaloosa, Ala., as a garrison to that place. These companies will be properly armed and equipped, and ten days' rations will be sent with them. Colonel Markham will aid the Treasury agents who are properly authorized to operate at Tuscaloosa. He will also aid the Freedmen's Bureau. He will take charge of all Government property and


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