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GENERAL ORDERS,
WAR DEPT. ADJT. GENERAL'S OFFICE, Numbers 237.
Washington, July 28, 1864.I. By direction of the President, Major-General Wallace, commanding the Middle Department, will resume the command of the Eighth Army Corps,* and other troops serving within the department, from which he was temporarily relieved in General orders, Numbers 228.
II. The troops of Major-General Hunter's command, temporarily assigned to the forces under Major-General Wright, in General Orders, Numbers 229, are, by direction of the President, hereby relieved from such assignment.
By order of the Secretary of War:
E. D. TOWNSEND,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
BALTIMORE, MD., July 28, 1864-7 p. m.
Colonel E. D. TOWNSEND,
Assistant Adjutant-General:
The following has just been received from Colonel Clendenin, at Frederick:
Brigadier-General TYLER:
Patrol has just returned from Williamsport. No rebels have crossed. General Averell is near Hagerstown with a division. General Crook has moved down to Sharpsburg en route to Harper's Ferry; his train also. We have cavalry and artillery at Williamsport; 18,000 rebels are reported opposite Clear Spring. The rebels are running thrashing machines and gathering the harvest. Colonel Mulligan is dead.
D. R. CLENDENIN,
Lieutenant-Colonel, Commanding.
LEW. WALLACE,
Major-General.
BALTIMORE, July 28, 1864.
Major THOMAS M. VINCENT,
Assistant Adjutant-General, War Department:
The following 100-days' regiments have arrived here: Ninety-third New York, Twentieth Pennsylvania, One hundred and ninety-fourth Pennsylvania, One hundred and ninety-fifth Pennsylvania, and Eighth Massachusetts. Two more Pennsylvania regiments are reported en route.
LEW. WALLACE,
Major-General of Volunteers.
SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. MIDDLE DEPT., 8TH ARMY CORPS, Numbers 187.
Baltimore, July 28, 1864.1. Under direction of His Honor Mayor Chapman, the lieutenants and sergeants of the municipal police of the city of Baltimore will proceed immediately to organize the able-bodied negroes in their respective wards into military companies for duty in this city,
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*Vice Major-General Ord, assigned to command of Eighteenth Army Corps.
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