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SPECIAL ORDERS,
WAR DEPT. ADJT., GENERAL'S OFFICE, Numbers 294.
Washington, June 10, 1865

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55. By direction of the President Bvt. Lieutenant Colonel Adam E. King: major and assistant adjutant-general U. S. Volunteers, is hereby assigned to duty as assistant adjutant-general of the First Army Corps, with the rank and pay of lieutenant-colonel, under act of July 17, 1862.

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100. By direction of the President Major Adrian Terry, assistant adjutant-general U. S. Volunteers, is hereby relieved from duty, as assistant adjutant-general of the Tenth Army Corps, with rank and pay of lieutenant-colonel, under act July 17, 1862, and will report in person without delay to Major-General Terry, commanding Department of Virginia, for duty.

101. Major C. H. Graves, assistant adjutant-general of volunteers, is hereby relieved from duty with the Tenth Army Corps, and will report to Major-General Terry, U. S. Volunteers, commanding Department of Virginia.

By order of the Secretary of War:

E. D. TOWNSEND,
Assistant Adjutant-General

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY,
ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE, Numbers 296.
Washington, June 10, 1865.

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6. The First Brigade of cavalry, Colonel B. Porter commanding, which was ordered by Major General C. C. Augur, commanding Department of Washington, in pursuance of paragraph 8, Special Orders, Numbers 276, Adjutant-General's Office, of date 3rd instant, to proceed to Louisville, Ky., and there report to Major-General Logan, commanding Army of the Tennessee, will with its arms, horses, and equipments, proceed direct and without delay to Saint Louis, Mo., and there report to Major-General Pope, commanding Military Division of the Mississippi. The quartermaster's department will furnish the necessary transportation.

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By command of Lieutenant-General Grant:

E. D. TOWNSEND,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

CIRCULAR.] HEADQUARTERS TWENTY-FOURTH ARMY CORPS,

Review Ground, Richmond, Va., Jun 10, 1865.

SOLDIERS OF THE TWENTY-FOURTH ARMY CORPS:

This is probably the last occasion upon which you, as a corps, will be assembled. Many of you are about to re-enter civil life to resume those domestic duties which by your great service in the great cause of the country have been neglected. Before we separate I desire to thank you in the name of a grateful country for the service you have rendered


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