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1079 Series I Volume XLIX-II Serial 104 - Mobile Bay Campaign Part II

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East to report to General Logan is not required, have that or their equivalent in other troops mustered out also.

U. S. GRANT,

Lieutenant-General.

KNOXVILLE, July 13, 1865.

General GILLEM:

Bvt. Major General E. Upton, U. S. Volunteers, has been ordered to report to you to take command of the cavalry in East Tennessee. Send an order by telegraph to him here placing him in command, so he can go direct to Lenoir.

By order of Major-General Stoneman:

A. J. ALEXANDER,

Chief of Staff.

NASHVILLE, TENN., July 14, 1865.

(Received 7.10 p.m.)

Lieutenant General U. S. GRANT:

Your telegram relating to the dismounting of mounted infantry received. Orders have been issued.

GEO. H. THOMAS,

Major-General.

NASHVILLE, July 14, 1865.

Major-General STONEMAN,

Knoxville:

Send a regiment of infantry to Edgefield to be on hand in case of disturbance at that place.

WM. D. WHIPPLE,

Brigadier-General, &c.


SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. MIL. DIV. OF THE TENNESSEE, No. 21. Nashville, Tenn., July 14, 1865.

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V. The One hundred and eighty-eighth Ohio Volunteers, now serving at Tullahoma, Tenn., are hereby relieved from further duty at that place. The commanding officer will report in person with his command without delay to Colonel M. F. Wood, commanding post of Nashville, Tenn., for garrison duty at this place. The quartermaster's department will furnish the necessary transportation.

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By command of Major-General Thomas:

HENRY M. CIST,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DIST. OF WEST TENNESSEE, No. 80. Memphis, Tenn., July 14, 1865.

The troops of this command will be reorganized into separate brigades as follows:

District of West Tennessee: First Cavalry Brigade, Bvt. Brigadier General J. E. Phelps-Second Arkansas Cavalry, Eleventh Illinois Cavalry,


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