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941 Series I Volume XLIX-II Serial 104 - Mobile Bay Campaign Part II

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SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF KENTUCKY, Numbers 86.
Louisville, Ky., May 31, 1865.

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14. The organization of the One hundred and nineteenth U. S. Colored Infantry being complete, the regiment is assigned to the First Division. The commanding officer will report for orders to Brigadier General E. H. Hobson.

By command of Major General J. M. Palmer:

E. B. HARLAN,
Captain and Assistant Adjutant-General.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS FIRST DIVISION,
MILITARY DISTRICT OF KENTUCKY, Numbers 4.
Lexington, Ky, May 31, 1865.

The following-named officers will be obeyed and respected as members of the staff of the brigadier-general commanding; Captain Nelson H. Church, One hundred and twenty-fourth U. S. Colored Infantry, aide-de-camp and acting assistant adjutant-general; Captain Thomas Priestley, Thirtieth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, provost-marshal-general; Lieutenant W. A. Brown, assistant commissary of musters.

By order of Brigadier General E. H. Hobson:

J. S. BUTLER,

Assistant Adjutant-General.


SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. MIL. DIV. OF WEST MISSISSIPPI, Numbers 147.
New Orleans, La., May 31, 1865.

7. The following-named officers will proceed without delay to Mobile, Ala., and report in person to the assistant adjutant-general of the Army and Division of West Mississippi for assignment to special duty; Colonel C. A. Hartwell, Seventy-seventh U. S. Colored Infantry; Lieutenant Colonel W. H. Thurston, assistant inspector-general, Department of the Gulf, Major D. J. Benner, aide-de-camp; Major C. C. Pike, Seventy-fourth U. S. Colored Infantry.

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

C. H. DYER,
Captain and Assistant Adjutant-General..

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. THIRTEENTH ARMY CORPS, Numbers 64.
Mobile, Ala., May 31, 1865.

Special Orders, Nol. 63, extract 1, from these headquarters, is so amended, as to attach the Twenty-first New York Battery to the Second Division. The commanding officer will report to General Andrews, commanding, without delay.

By order of Major-General Granger:

F. W. EMERY,

Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.


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