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directs, that from and after this date the order above referred to requiring passport shall be modified, and so much thereof as relates to persons entering this country from Canada shall be rescinded, saving and reserving the order in all other respects in full force.
WILLIAM H. SEWARD.
By order of the Secretary of War:
E. D. TOWNSEND,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
SPECIAL ORDERS,
WAR DEPT., ADJT. GENERAL'S OFFICE, No. 126. Washington, March 15, 1865.* * * * * * * * * * * * * *
11. Bvt. Major J. M. Howard, assistant adjutant-general of volunteers, is hereby relieved from duty in the War Department, and will report in person without delay, to Major-General Hartsuff, U. S. Volunteers, for duty on his staff.
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By order of the Secretary of War:
E. D. TOWNSEND,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
HEADQUARTERS SECOND ARMY CORPS,March 25, 1865. (Received 12.45 p.m.)
Major General A. S. WEBB,
Chief of Staff:
A detachment from the Eighth New York Heavy Artillery, Second Division of this corps, is in charge of six Coehorn mortars near Fort Morton, on the Ninth Corps front. If it can be relieved conveniently by a detachment from troops of the Ninth Corps and ordered back to its regiment, I wish it may be done. When the change of position in the two corps was made the detachment was left at the especial request of the commanding officer of the Ninth Army Corps.
A. A. HUMPHREYS,
Major-General.
SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. FIRST DIV., SECOND ARMY CORPS, No. 76. March 15, 1865.1. Lieutenant Colonel R. A. Brown, Sixty-first New York Volunteers, is hereby detailed as acting assistant adjutant-general at these headquarters, and will report for duty accordingly.
By order of Brevet Major-General Miles:
JNO. D. BLACK,
Brevet Captain and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.
HEADQUARTERS FIFTH ARMY CORPS,March 15, 1865. (Received 10.15 a.m.)
Colonel GEORGE D. RUGGLES,
Assistant Adjutant-General:
I have the honor to report all quiet on this front the past twenty-four hours.
Respectfully,
G. K. WARREN,
Major-General of Volunteers.
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