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SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE OHIO, Numbers 67.
Louisville, Ky., March 12, 1862.

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VI. Brigadier General W. T. Ward, U. S. Volunteers, is assigned to the command of the camp of instruction at Bardstown, and to the command of all troops on the lines south of Louisville as far as Bacon Creek, including New Haven and Lebanon.

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By command of Brigadier-General Buell:

O. D. GREENE,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

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SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE OHIO, Numbers 69.
Louisville, Ky., March 14, 1862.

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III. Colonel J. A. Garfield, commanding Eighteenth Brigade, will post the Fortieth Ohio, the Sixteenth Kentucky, and McLaughlin's squadron of cavalry at Prestonburg, Ky., leaving Colonel Cranor in command of the post, and giving him his instructions. Colonel Garfield will then proceed with the remainder of his command, except Wolford's cavalry, via the Big Sandy and Ohio River, to Louisville, Ky., and thence to Bardstown, where he will take post. Lieutenant-Colonel Letcher, with the companies of Wolford's cavalry under his command, will march by land to Bardstown and rejoin his regiment. * * *

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By command of Brigadier-General Buell:

O. D. GREENE,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

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ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS FIRST DIVISION, Numbers 6.
Steamer Continental, March 14, 1862.

The following officers are announced as the staff of this division: Captain J. H. Hammond, assistant adjutant-general; Surg. D. W. Hartshorn, Surg. Saml. L'Hommedieu, Lieutenant Colonel M. B. Hascall, Forty-eighth Indiana; Major W. D. Sanger, Fifty-fifth Illinois; Lieutenant J. C. McCoy, Fifty-fourth Ohio; Lieutenant [John] T. Taylor, Fifth Ohio Cavalry. They will be obeyed and respected accordingly.

By order of Brigadier General W. T. Sherman:

J. H. HAMMOND,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

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SPECIAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE OHIO, Numbers 1.
Nashville, March 15, 1862.

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VII. The Seventh Brigade, General Negley commanding, is relieved from Second Division, and will receive orders from headquarters.

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By command of Major-General Buell:

J. M. WRIGHT,
Assistant Adjutant-General.


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