quartermaster, in addition to his duties as post quartermaster of Nashville; Colonel J. C. Read, commissary of subsistence, U. S. Volunteers, chief commissary; Surg. George E. Cooper, U. S. Army, colonel and medical director; Brigadier General Z. B. Tower, U. S. Volunteers, major, U. S. Corps of Engineers, chief engineer; Bvt. Brigadier General J. G. Parkhust, colonel Ninth Michigan Volunteer Infantry, provost-marshal-general; Bvt. Major A. L. Hough, captain, Nineteenth Infantry, U. S. Army, chief commissary of musters. All officers performing staff duty by order from headquarters Department of the Cumberland will remain on such duty until relieved in orders from these headquarters.

By command of Major-General Thomas:

WM. D. WHIPPLE,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HDQRS. SECOND DIVISION, THIRTEENTH ARMY CORPS,
Mobile, Ala., June 25, 1865.

Brigadier General T. K. SMITH,

Commanding Post and District of Mobile, Ala.:

GENERAL: In compliance with your request I have the honor to report that the regiments of my division now here are the Sixty-ninth Battalion Indiana Volunteers, Nineteenth and Twentieth Iowa Volunteers, Thirty-seventh and Twenty-ninth Illinois Volunteers, Twenty-third Wisconsin Volunteers, Thirtieth Missouri Volunteers, and a portion of the Seventy-sixth Illinois Volunteers. The Twenty-fourth Indiana Volunteers and the Ninety-seventh Illinois are embarking to-day.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

C. C. ANDREWS,

Brevet Major-General.

HEADQUARTERS SIXTEENTH ARMY CORPS,
Montgomery, June 25, 1865.

Brigadier General T. K. SMITH,

Mobile, Ala.:

The major-general commanidng directs that the regiments of the Thirteenth Army corps now in your district be sent to their destination as fast as transportation can be furnished. This without regard to the time of expiration of their terms of service. For further information in regard to their destination you will telegraph to Major-General Canby. Please report the execution of this order. Let me know what regiments of the Thirteenth Army Corps you have.

JAMES B. COMSTOCK,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

MOBILE, June 25, 1865.

(Received 26th.)

ASSISTANT ADJUTANT-GENERAL, DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF:

SIR: Being ordered by Major General A. J. Smith, commanding Sixteenth Army Corps, to have the regiments of the Thirteenth Army Corps now here forwarded to their destination, I would request that I may be notified what their destination is. Major General A. J. Smith directs me to make this inquiry of you.

THOS. KILBY SMITH,

Brigadier-General.