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Page 869 Chapter XXVIII. SURRENDER OF CLARKSVILLE, TENN.


SPECIAL ORDERS,
WAR DEPT., ADJT. GENERAL'S OFFICE,

Numbers 242. Washington, July 19, 1864.

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II. So much of General Orders, Numbers 120, August 29, 1862, from this office, as dismissed First Lieutenant Ira L. Morris, Seventy-first Ohio Volunteers, is hereby revoked, he being now in service as a private soldier of the Union Light Guards, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry. Lieutenant Morris will be considered as honorably discharged as an officers from the date the General Orders, Numbers 120, took effect, but held to service under his present enlistment.

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By order of the Secretary of War:

E. D. TOWNSEND,

Assistant Adjutant-General.


SPECIAL ORDERS,
WAR DEPT., ADJT. GENERAL'S OFFICE,

Numbers 206. Washington, May 3, 1866.

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XIII. By direction of the President, General Orders, Numbers 120, August 29, 1862, from this office, is hereby revoked, and the following-named officers of the Seventy-first Ohio Volunteers (names corrected), are hereby mustered out of the service of the United States, to date August 29, 1862:

Captain W. H. Callender, Captain Smith H. Clark, Captain J. R. Woodward,

Captain T. W. Bown, Captain C. H. Kramer, First Lieutenant Thomas T. More, First Lieutenant N. J. Harter, Second Lieutenant Isaac Mann, Second Lieutenant H. M. Drury, Second Lieutenant Stephen W. Beaman.

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By order of the Secretary of War:

E. D. TOWNSEND,

Assistant Adjutant-General.


Numbers 5.

Report of Major William H. Sidell, Fifteenth U. S. Infantry, and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

NASHVILLE, August 20, 1862.

GENERAL: Five companies Seventy-first Ohio, 350 men; one small gun, with entrenchments and rifle pits, captured without resistance on Monday noon. Enemy entered suburbs at 10; sent flag of truce and received capitulation at 12.

Steamboat Fisher just coming up with corn and oats and other stores taken and grain thrown in river. Mason and his men sent down (destination Camp Chase) with Confederate guard as far as latter could safely go. Enemy only 300 strong, all cavalry, under Johnson, Woodward, and Garth. Nothing but shot-guns, and their vicinity known to Mason at the time. Postmaster, collector, and railroad engineer kept prisoners on demand of citizens, who want to hang them, but Johnson opposes. Half the Confederates left yesterday, supposed for Fort Don-


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