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SPECIAL HEADQUARTERS ARMY AND DIVISION FIELD ORDERS, OF WEST MISSISSIPPI, Numbers 77.
Mobile, Ala., May 29, 1865.

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2. The Thirty-first Massachusetts Mounted Infantry, Lieutenant Colonel E. P. Nettleton commanding, is hereby relieved from duty at these headquarters, and will without delay report to Major General Gordon Granger, commanding Thirteenth Army Corps, for duty.

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By order of Major General E. R. S. Canby:

ALFRED FREDBERG,

Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.

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SPECIAL ORDERS, HDQRS. DEPT. OF THE CUMBERLAND,
No 59.
Nashville, Tenn., June 12, 1865.

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XIII. Bvt. Brigadier General E. C. Mason is hereby assigned to the command of the First Brigade, First Division, Department of the Cumberland.

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By command of Major-General Thomas:

HENRY M. CIST,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

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GENERAL ORDERS, HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF FLORIDA, Numbers 1.
Tallahassee, June 19, 1865.

I. In compliance with General Orders, Numbers 81, Department of the Gulf, dated June 3, 1865, the undersigned, as senior officere present, assumes command of the District of Florida.

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JOHN NEWTON,

Brigadier-General of Volunteers.

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SPECIAL ORDERS, WAR DEPT., ADJT., GENERAL'S OFFICE, Numbers 318.
Washington, June 20, 1865.

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46. Bvt. Major General W. T. Ward, U. S. Volunteers, will report to Major-General Thomas, commanding Department of the Cumberland, for assignment to duty.

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By order of the Secretary of War:

E. D. TOWNSEND,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

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HEADQUARTERS FOURTH DIVISION, CAVALRY CORPS,
MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI,

Edgefield, Tenn., June 30, 1865.

Bvt. Major General J. H. WILSON,

Commanding Cavalry Corps, Military Division of the Mississippi:

SIR: I have the honor to inform you that at a meeting of the officers and enlisted men of the Cavalry Corps, Military Division of the Mississippi,


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