or near Georgetown, Ky., in retaliation for murder of Robinson at Georgetown, Ky. You will also procure the services of any priest they may ask for. After the execution of this order you will report the proceedings "officially" to these headquarters.

By command of Brigadier-General McLean:

GEO. HAMILTON.

Captain and Prov. March General, First Div., Dist. of Kentucky.

[JULY 27, 1864. - For Canby to Washburn, in relation to operations in Arkansas, &c., see Vol. XLI.]

HEADQUARTERS RIGHT WING, SIXTEENTH ARMY CORPS,
Memphis, Tenn., July 27, 1864.

Brigadier General J. A. MOWER,

Commanding First DIVISION, SIXTEENTH Army Corps:

GENERAL: Pursuant to orders from Major General C. C. Washburn, commanding District of WEST Tennessee, the general commanding directs that you have the largest brigade of your command in readiness move by the Memphis and Charleston Railroad to-morrow morning, and hold then in readiness until further orders. When ordered, they will go out to Grand Junction, and from thence south with a construction party, who are ordered to repair the railroad.

I am, general, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

J. HOUGH,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. RIGHT WING, 16TH ARMY CORPS, Numbers 10.
Memphis, Tenn., July 27, 1864.

The following-named officers are announced as upon the staff of the major-general commanding, and will be respected and obeyed accordingly: Major G. M. Staples, surgeon Fourteenth Iowa Infantry, medical director: Captain John Hough, assistant adjutant-general volunteers, assistant adjutant-general; Captain J. J. Lyon, Twenty-fourth Missouri Volunteers, judge-advocate: Captain William S. Burns, Fourth Missouri Cavalry acting assistant inspector-general; First Lieutenant J. W. Wright, Second Iowa Cavalry, acting assistant quartermaster; Second Lieutenant John B. Pannes, Seventeenth New York Volunteers, acting ordnance officer.

A. J. SMITH,

Major-General.

HEADQUARTERS,
Saint Louis, Mo., July 27, 1864. (Received 10. 10 p. m.)

Major-General HALLECK,

Chief of Staff:

Colonel Callender has shipped to General Washburn ten light 12- pounders with carriages caissons, &c,. to Lieutenant Pannes, for use of SIXTEENTH Army Corps, at Memphis and will ship fourteen more 3-inch wrought-iron guns as soon as all the caissons and the balance of the guns are received, which will be to-morrow. Is that sufficient?

W. S. ROSECRANS,

Major-General.