oppression or unjust treatment toward the employe, and no compulsory action will be used until a full investigation has determined the rights of the particular case.

By order of Bvt. Major General John E. Smith:

W. H. MORGAN,

Brevet Brigadier-General and Assistant Adjutant-General.

NEW ORLEANS, June 27, 1865.

Major General GEORGE H. THOMAS, U. S. Army:

Please advise me of any changes you desire making in the location of troops of you command that are now within the limits of this department. I [will] make arrangements to replace them.

E. R. S. CANBY,

Major-General.

HEADQUARTERS MILITARY DIVISION OF THE TENNESSEE,
Nashville, June 27, 1865. (Received 8 a. m. 28th.)

Major General E. R. S. CANBY,

New Orleans:

Have received no orders yet from General Grant whether he intends the troops now in Alabama and Mississippi to remain in those States or not. Unless you need them, I should like to have all the troops of your command now in Alabama and Mississippi to remain, as such an arrangement would save the expense of transporting other troops to those States. Please answer, stating what you can do.

GEO. H. THOMAS,

Major-General, U. S. Army, Commanding.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF,
New Orleans, June 27, 1865.

Brigadier General T. KILBY SMITH,

Commanding at Mobile, Ala.:

All the troops of the Thirteenth Army Corps now at Mobile, inclining those assigned to temporary duty there, will be sent to their destination in Texas as soon as transportation can be furnished.

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

J. LOVELL,

Captain and Assistant Adjutant-General.

CAMP SECOND MAINE CAVALRY,

Montgomery, Ala., June 27, 1865.

Lieutenant Colonel J. HOUGH,

Assistant Adjutant-General, Sixteenth Army Corps:

I have the honor to submit the following report: Obedient to instructions dated headquarters Sixteenth Army Corps, Montgomery, Ala., June 17, 1865, I started on the 20th for Elba, Coffee County, Ala., in command of thirty men of the Second Maine Cavalry to ascertain the truth of the report of robberies and depredations in that vicinity, and to remedy the evil as far as possible. I arrived at Elba on the 23rd of