[Second indorsement.]

HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF Kentucky,
Lexington, Ky., August 16, 1864.

Respectfully returned to Colonel Starling through headquarters First DIVISION.

The regimental quartermaster Thirty-fifth Kentucky Volunteers will give proper vouchers to loyal men for horses taken from them and retained in Government service, taking up and accounting for on his return all such.

By order of Major-General Burbridge:

J. BATES DICKSON,

Captain and Assistant Adjutant-General.

SPECIAL FIELD ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT,
AND ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE, Numbers 90.
Before Atlanta, Ga., August 6, 1864.

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II. Major General C. C. Washburn, commanding District of WEST Tennessee will order the detachments of the following-named regiments belonging to the Seventeenth Army Corps to forthwith proceed to join their corps reporting to Major-General Blair, commanding in the field: Eighty-first Illinois Infantry, Ninety- fifth Illinois, Infantry, Fourteenth Wisconsin Infantry, Thirty- THIRD Wisconsin Infantry. General Washburn will afford every facility for the prompt compliance with this order.

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By order of Major General O. O. Howard:

WM. T. CLARK,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

[AUGUST 6, 1864. - For Washburn to Steele, in relation to operations in Arkansas, &c., see Vol. XLI.]

HDQRS MILITARY DIVISION OF WEST MISSISSIPPI,
New Orleans, La., August 6, 1864.

Major General W. T. SHERMAN:

The fleet under Admiral Farragut passed the forts at the entrance of Mobile Bay at 8 o'clock yesterday morning. The monitor Tecumseh was blown up by a rebel torpedo and lost, with nearly all her crew. The rebel ram Tennessee and gun-boat Selma were captured after an obstinate resistance. The other gun-boats took shelter under the guns of Fort Morgan. The admiral expects to capture or destroy them to-day, and to secure a landing east of Fort Morgan and in the bay for our troops. Fort Powell is reported abandoned and blown up. Fort Gaines was invested by the land forces under General Granger, and is reported to have surrendered, but this is not official. The loss in the fleet in killed, wounded, and drowned is about 250. Within the exception of the Tecumseh, none of our vessels were lost, and the Hartford is the only that is seriously injured. I am sending Granger all the