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1087 Series I Volume XLIX-II Serial 104 - Mobile Bay Campaign Part II

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Twelfth Ohio Cavalry, Twelfth Kentucky Cavalry, Tenth Michigan Cavalry, Second Missouri Cavalry will constitute the Cavalry Brigade, District of East Tennessee, Brevet Major-General Upton commanding.

II. The Second Ohio Heavy Artillery, Company C, First Wisconsin Heavy Artillery, First U. S. Colored Heavy Artillery, Third North Carolina Infantry, Second North Carolina Infantry, Fortieth U. S. Colored Infantry, Fourteenth U. S. Colored Infantry will constitute the First Brigade, Brevet Major-General Charles Cruft commanding, headquarters at Greenville, Tenn.

III. The Forty-fourth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, One hundred and eighty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Eleventh Michigan Volunteer Infantry, Sixteenth U. S. Colored Infantry, Eighteenth U. S. Colored Infantry, Forty-second U. S. Colored Infantry, Forty-fourth U. S. Colored Infantry will constitute the Second Brigade, Colonel L. Johnson, Forty-fourth U. S. Colored Infantry, commanding.

IV. These organizations will be considered as separate brigades as contemplated in General Orders, No. 111, War Department, series 1861, and will make all reports and returns direct to district headquarters.

By command of Brevet Major-General Gillem:

G. M. BASCOM,

Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.


SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DISTRICT OF WEST TENNESSEE, No. 184. Memphis, Tenn., July 20, 1865.

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II. In accordance with instructions from the War Department, Adjutant-General's Office, Washington, June 28, 1865, the Second Arkansas Cavalry will be immediately mustered out of service. The horses will be turned over to Captain A. R. Eddy, chief quartermaster, District of West Tennessee, and the arms in compliance with General Orders, No. 83, paragraph 4, War Department, Adjutant-General's Office, of date May 8, 1865.

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By order of Bvt. Major General John E. Smith:

W. H. MORGAN,
Brevet Brigadier-General and Assistant Adjutant-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE, No. 104. Louisville, Ky., July 20, 1865.

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II. The regiments of the Third Division, Seventeenth Army Corps, having been mustered out of service, Captain Alexander McIntosh, assistant quartermaster, U. S. Volunteers, is hereby relieved from duty in the Army of the Tennessee, and will proceed to his place of residence, Joiet, Ill., reporting thence by letter to the Adjutant-General of the Army for orders.

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V. The regiments comprising the First Brigade, Fourth Division, Fifteenth Army Corps, having been mustered out of service, the following-named officers are hereby relieved from duty in the Army of the Tennessee, and will proceed to their respective places of residence,


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