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1073 Series I Volume XLIX-II Serial 104 - Mobile Bay Campaign Part II

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HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE,
Louisville, Ky., July 8, 1865.

Colonel THOMAS M. VINCENT,

Assistant Adjutant-General, U. S. Army:

GENERAL: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your telegram of the 7th instant with reference to the muster out of the Army of the Tennessee. In reply I would inform you that the aggregate present and absent from each State to be mustered out under your telegram of the 1st of July is as given below. This in is addition to the 15,000 present ordered to be mustered out in your telegram of the 22nd of June:

Aggregate Aggregate

present absent

Wisconsin 3,005 6,634

Iowa 3,491 2,211

Minnesota 934 365

Ohio 4,278 3,040

Illinois 4,481 2,556

Michigan 1,387 1,220

Indiana 4,886 2,691

Kentucky 273 126

Missouri 548 96

The report of troops to be mustered out under your instructions of the 1st of July, with copies of orders issued directing the muster-out, were forwarded to you by yesterday's (the 7th instant) mail.

Respectfully,

JOHN A. LOGAN,

Major-General.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE, No. 29. Louisville, Ky., July 8, 1865.

In accordance with telegraphic instructions from the Adjutant-General of the Army, of date of July 7, 1865, directing that all general and staff officers, so soon as their command cease to exist, be ordered to their places of residence, there to report to the Adjutant-General for orders, corps commanders will forward to these headquarters the names of all general and staff officers so soon as the brigade or division to which they belong is broken up by the muster out of the troops comprising it, in order that orders may be issued from these headquarters as directed above. The report will specify the place of residence of each officer.

By command of Major General John A. Logan:

MAX. WOODHULL,

Assistant Adjutant-General.


HEADQUARTERS MILITARY DIVISION OF THE TENNESSEE,
Nashville, Tenn., July 9, 1865.

Major General J. M. PALMER,

Commanding Department of Kentucky:

GENERAL: The major-general commanding has this day directed the Sixth Kentucky Cavalry and the Seventh Kentucky Cavalry to report to you at Louisville, Ky., for the purpose of being present at the coming

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