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GENERAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF TEXAS,


Numbers 8. Galveston, Tex., June 30, 1865.

The following order from headquarters Military Division of the Southwest is republished for the information of all concerned. *

By order of Major-General Granger:

F. W. EMERY,

Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.


SPECIAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF TEXAS,

Numbers 10. Galveston, Tex., June 30, 1865.

1. Lieutenant Colonel John C. Palfrey, assistant inspector-general, will proceed without delay to Indianola, there to expedite the reconstruction of the railroad and the repair of wharves, and to obtain information and make recommendation in regard to storage facilities. He will instruct the post commander in relation to paroling, the treatment of freed people, and such other points as the major-general commanding may direct.

By order of Major-General Granger:

F. W. EMERY,

Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. MIL. DIV. OF THE TENNESSEE,


Numbers 4. Nashville, Tenn., June 30, 1865.

By order of the President of the United States, so much of General Orders, Numbers 1, headquarters Military Division of the Tennessee, June 20, 1865, as places the Department of Florida, embracing the State of Florida and the District of Key West, in the Military Division of the Tennessee; and all of General Orders, Numbers 2, headquarters Military Division of the Tennessee, June 23, 1865, adding the Department of the Mississippi, embracing the State of Mississippi, to the Military Division of the Tennessee, are hereby revoked.

By command of Major-General Thomas:

WM. D. WHIPPLE,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

LANCASTER, OHIO, June 30, 1865.

Lieutenant General U. S. GRANT,

Washington, D. C.:

My assignment to Saint Louis is perfectly satisfactory. I go to Cincinnati to-day and will go to Louisville, and it may be to Saint Louis, before I come back.

W. T. SHERMAN,

Major-General.


HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSOURI,
Saint Louis, June 30, 1865.

Colonel COLE,

Omaha:

Don't wait for rations. If You have not got them get of Captain Cooley, commissary of subsistence, and let him take yours when they

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* See General Orders, Numbers 5, p. 1031.

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