WILMINGTON, April 4, 1865.

Major-General SHERMAN,

Commanding Military Division of the Mississippi:

GENERAL: We are getting along finely here. I hope to have both bridges completed this p. m. and hope to run trains through to-morrow. Our facilities are good for forwarding supplies with dispatch. Troops are arriving. They march to the front. The steamers have gone to Hilton Head. I suppose you had a pleasant trip on the Bat. I had a rough voyage on the Russia.

Respectfully, your obedient servant,

GEO. S. DODGE,

Brevet Brigadier-General and Chief Quartermaster.

SPECIAL FIELD ORDERS,
HDQRS. ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE, Numbers 81.
Goldsborough, N. C., April 4, 1865.

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IX. Lieutenant Colonel Charles H. Howard, aide-de-camp to the major-general commanding, having received an appointment as colonel of the One hundred and twenty-eighth Regiment U. S. Colored Troops, is hereby relieved from duty at these headquarters, and will report to Bvt. Major General R. Saxton, general superintendent recruiting service, at Beaufort, S. C. Quartermaster's department will furnish transportation.

By order of Major General O. O. Howard:

A. M. VAN DYKE,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. FIFTEENTH ARMY CORPS, Numbers 16.
Goldsborough, N. C., April 4, 1865.

Colonel Robert F. Catterson, Ninety-seventh Indiana Volunteers, is hereby relieved from duty at these headquarters as chief of staff to enable him to assume command of a brigade in the First Division. The general commanding regrets to part with this officer as a member of his staff, but in returning him to his old brigade feels confident that it will be commanded in the future with the same ability as in the past.

By command of Major General John A. Logan:

MAX. WOODHULL,

Lieutenant-Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. FIRST DIV., 15TH ARMY CORPS, Numbers 14.
Near Goldsborough, N. C., April 4, 1865.

I. Colonel R. F. Catterson, Ninety-seventh Indiana Infantry, having been relieved from duty on the staff of the major-general commanding the army corps, is hereby assigned to the command of the second brigade of this division, made vacant by the transfer of Brigadier-General Walcutt to the Army of Georgia.

By order of Bvt. Brigadier General W. B. Woods:

FRED. H. WILSON,

Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.