853 Series I Volume XLIX-I Serial 103 - Mobile Bay Campaign Part I
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their commands in marching order at that time, wagons loaded. A detail of one man from each company may be left to guard such things as cannot be carried the first load.
By command of Colonel Henry Bertram:
A. J. ROCKWELL,
Lieutenant and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.
SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. SECOND Brigadier, SECOND DIV., No. 1.
THIRTEENTH ARMY CORPS, Barrancas, Fla., March 6, 1865.Captain F. T. Lewis, Company G, Ninety-seventh Illinois Volunteer Infantry, is hereby detailed as acting assistant adjutant-general at these headquarters and will at once report for duty.
W. T. SPICELY,
Colonel, Commanding Brigade.GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. SECOND Brigadier, SECOND DIV., No. 2.
THIRTEENTH ARMY CORPS, Barrancas, Fla., March 6, 1865.The following officers are hereby announced on the staff of the colonel commanding: Surg. Charles S. Boynton, Twenty-fourth Indiana Volunteers, chief surgeon; Captain Fred. T. Lewis, Ninety-seventh Illinois Volunteers, acting assistant adjutant-general; First Lieutenant Noel Brosseau, Seventy-sixth Illinois Volunteers, acting assistant quartermaster.
By command of Colonel W. T. Spicely, commanding brigade:
F. T. LEWIS,
Captain and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.
GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. U. S. FORCES AT MOBILE POINT, No. 4.
THIRD DIV., THIRTEENTH ARMY CORPS, Fort Morgan, Ala., March 6, 1865.Lieutenant Colonel Charles A. Smith, Thirty-fifth Wisconsin Infantry Volunteers, is hereby announced as acting assistant inspector-general and chief of staff for the Third Division, Thirteenth Army Corps, and temporarily for the U. S. forces at Mobile Point.
By order of Brigadier-General Benton:
FRANK ADAMS,
Captain and Assistant Adjutant-General.
GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. THIRD Brigadier, SECOND DIV., No. 8.
SIXTEENTH ARMY CORPS, Camp Chalmette, La., March 6, 1865.In compliance with Special Orders, No. 47, headquarters Second Division, Sixteenth Army Corps, dated near New Orleans, La., March 6, 1865, the undersigned assumes command of the Third Brigade, Second Division, Sixteenth Army Corps.
C. L. HARRIS,
Colonel Eleventh Wisconsin Veteran Volunteer Infantry.
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