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HNTSVILLE, ALA., june 30, 1862.

(Received 10.45 p. m.)

Honorable E. M. STANTON:

I earnestly solicit your orders for active duty, an ask a transfer with my division to the Potomac. Geenrl Buell is now here in com mand, and I have nothing to do. I beg a favorable response.

O. M. MITCHEL,

Major-General.

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SPECIAL FIELD ORDER,
HDQRS. DEPT. OFT HE MISSISIPPI, Numbers 141.
Corinth, Miss., July 4, 1862.

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2. The Twenty- second Missouri and FIfteenth Wisconsin Volunteers will be assigned to the division commanded by General Davis, Army of the Mississippil.

3. Brigadier-General Tuttle is assigned to duty with the Army of the Tennessee, and will report to Major-General Ord.

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By order of major-General Halleck:

J. C. KELTON,

Assistatn Adjutant-General.

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SPECIAL ORDERS,
HEADUQARTES ARMY OF THE OHIO,

Numbers 96.
Huntsville, Ala., July 8, 1862.

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II9. Brigadier General T. T. Crittnden will prceed at once to Murfreesborough, Tenn., and assume comamd of all troops at that place.

By command of Major-General Buell:

J. M. WRIGHT,

Assistatn Adjutat-General.

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SPECIAL ORDER,
HDQRS ARMY of the MISSISIPPI, Numbers 176.
July 10, 1862.

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3. The brigade of General R. B. Mitchell, U. S . Vouiunteers, assigned by Spedial Field Orders, Nos. 141 and 149, headquarters Department, to the division of Birg. General J. C. Davis, will, until prpared fort he field, be attached to the Third Division, General C. S. Hamilton. General Hamilton willalso exercise a supervision over the detachments of General J. C. Davis' divison, remaining in camp on CLear Creek.

BY order of General Roseacrans:

C. F. MARDEN,

First Lieutenant and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

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SPECIAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS ARMY of the OHIO, Numbers 105.
Huntsville, ala., July 17, 1862.

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IV. The Twenty- third Brigade will hereafter be compopsed as follows: Fifty- firzst Ohio Volunteers, Eighth Kentucky Volunteers, Thirty- fifth Indian Volunteers, and Twenty- first Kentucky Volunteers, Colonel Staneley Matthews commanding.


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