register the names, rank, corps, &c., of all such persons, and furnish them with passes to proceed to and remain at their homes without molestation so long as they observe the conditions of their paroles and the regulations and laws in force at their places of residence.

By order of Major General E. R. S. Canby:

C. T. CHRISTENSEN,

Lieutenant-Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.

GENERAL HEADQUARTERS ARMY AND DIVISION, FIELD ORDERS, OF WEST MISSISSIPPI, Numbers 34.
Mobile, Ala., May 2, 1865.

Captain H. C. Hodges, assistant quartermaster, U. S. Volunteers, is assigned to duty as assistant chief quartermaster of the Army and Division of West Mississippi, and will until further orders be stationed at Mobile, Ala. He will exercise an immediate supervision over the officers of the quartermaster's department on duty at the depot established at Mobile, and is charged with the supplying of the troops now operating on the Alabama and Tombigbee Rivers, as well as those on and in the vicinity of Mobile Bay. Any reports or information called for by him will be promptly furnished, and all orders given by him under the authority of the commanding general will be respected.

By order of Major General E. R. S. Canby:

C. T. CHRISTENSEN,

Lieutenant-Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.

SPECIAL HEADQUARTERS ARMY AND DIVISION, FIELD ORDERS, OF WEST MISSISSIPPI, Numbers 51.
Mobile, Ala., May 2, 1865.

1. It is hereby directed that all ordnance and ordnance stores captured from the rebels in and around Mobile Bay, not necessary for the purpose armament and equipment of such works as are in progress of erection by the engineer department of this army, be sent to Forts Morgan and Gaines, Ala., and Fort Pickens, Fla. On the arrival of any vessel laden with the above-mentioned property at either of the forts mentioned, the commanding officer thereof will immediately have the ordnance and ordnance stores unloaded, the guns carefully packed or laid upon skids to keep them from the ground, and the ammunition will be carefully stored in the magazines of the work, or otherwise securely covered. Captain Beebe, U. S. Ordnance Department, at present acting as depot ordnance officer at Mobile, or his successors, will invoice the property sent upon each vessel to either of the above mentioned posts to the commanding officer thereof, and the commanding officer of said fort will return his receipt to Captain Beebe or his successors for the same, and account for the property as required by Army Regulations.

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4. The commanding general, Department of the Gulf, will cause one four-gun battery of field artillery to be selected from the most efficient in his command for immediate field service. The battery selected will be fully equipped and organized as horse artillery, and as soon as thoroughly prepared for the field will be returned over to Brigadier General J. R. West, commanding cavalry forces designated for special field service,