ments brigaded with the THIRD DIVISION, Seventeenth Army Corps, now in the field, are hereby transferred to the SIXTEENTH Army Corps, and will report accordingly.

2. The Second DIVISION, SIXTEENTH Army Corps, Brigadier-General Corse commanding, is transferred to the First Fifteenth Army Corps, and will report accordingly.

3. Brigadier-General Ransom, will resume command of the Fourth DIVISION, SIXTEENTH Army Corps, which is hereby transferred to the Seventeenth Army Corps, the command of which Brigadier-General Ransom will assume, by seniority of rank, in the temporary absence of Major-General Blair.

4. Brigadier General C. R. Woods is relieved from the temporary command of THIRD DIVISION, Seventeenth Army Corps, and will report to Major-General Osterhaus, commanding Fifteenth Army Corps, for assignment to command of the First DIVISION.

5. The new organization of this department and army will be published hereafter.

By order of Major General O. O. Howard:

WM. T. CLARK,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. FIFTEENTH ARMY CORPS, Numbers 46.
East Point, Ga., September 22, 1864.

In pursuance of instructions from Major-General Logan, and in his absence, the undersigned hereby assumes command of the Fifteenth Army Corps. The staff will remain unchanged and reports and returns will be made as heretofore.

P. JOS. OSTERHAUS,

Major-General.

HEADQUARTERS LEFT WING, SIXTEENTH ARMY CORPS,
East Point, Ga., September 22, 1864.

Colonel W. T. CLARK,

Assistant Adjutant-General, Dept. and Army of the Tennessee:

COLONEL: General Corse has received information through a negro which he thinks is reliable, that the enemy have at Fairburn a brigade of cavalry and some infantry.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

T. E. G. RANSOM,

Brigadier-General.

HEADQUARTERS NORTHERN DEPARTMENT,
Columbus, Ohio, September 22, 1864-10 a. m.

Colonel C. W. HILL, Commanding Johnson's Island, Ohio:

Such persons as you may deem criminally connected with the seizure of boats you will hold subject to further investigations. The general directs that you hold such as may be turned over to you by others.

S. H. LATHROP,

Lieutenant-Colonel and Assistant Inspector-General.

[SEPTEMBER 22, 1864. - For Sherman to Hood, relating to prisoners at Andersonville, see Second Series.]