NASHVILLE, TENN., May 28, 1865.

Honorable E. M. STANTON,

Secretary of War, Washington, D. C.:

Yours about Howell Cobb received. Mallory, Secretary of the rebel Navy and B. H. Hill, Senator from Georgia,have been arrested and are now on their way North as prisoners with Howell Cobb. What shall be done with Mallory and Hill? It does not appear that they have been paroled.

GEO. H. THOMAS,

Major-General.

WAR DEPARTMENT,

Washington City, May 28, 1865-9.30 p.m. (Received 29th.)

Major-General THOMAS,

Nashville:

You will please forward Mallory and B. H. Hill under proper guard to Fort Lafayette, the officer reporting to Major-General Dix, in New York. When do you expect to come to Washington?

EDWIN M. STANTON,

Secretary of War.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPT. OF THE CUMBERLAND, Numbers 44.
Nashville, Tenn., May 28, 1865.

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V. Brigadier General A. Willich, U. S. Volunteers, having reported at these headquarters in compliance with Special Orders, Numbers 218, paragraph 6, current series, War Department, will report in person without delay to Major General D. S. Stanley, commanding Fourth Army Corps, for assignment to duty.

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By command of Major-General Thomas:

HENRY M. CIST,
Assistant Adjutant-General

NASHVILLE, May 28, 1865.

Major General J. H. WILSON,

Macon, Ga.

Brevet Brigadier-General Winslow is authorized to issue to the people within his command sufficient provisions to prevent starvation. Caution him not to permit the issue to assume such extravagant and extensive proportions as such issues have generally done heretofore in most cases.

By command of Major-General Thomas:

WM. D. WHIPPLE,

Brigadier-General, &c.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS CAVALRY CORPS,
MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI, Numbers 30.
Macon, Ga., May 28, 1865

I. All blanks, documents, books of records, and archives of every description heretofore belonging to the so-called Confederate States,