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HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF MISSISSIPPI,
Memphis, Tenn., February 11, 1865.

Lieutenant Colonel C. T. CHRISTENSEN,

Asst. Adjt. General, Military Division of West Mississippi:

My scuts inform me that General Forrest is ordered to Mobile. His men are to assemble near Grenada with a view to going either to mobile or Charleston.

Respectfully,

N. J. T. DANA,

Major-General.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF MISSISSIPPI, Numbers 20.
Memphis, Tenn., February 11, 1865.

Captain W. H. H. Emmons, assistant adjutant-general, U. S. Volunteers, is hereby announced on duty at these headquarters.

By order o Major General N. J. T. Dana:

F. W. FOX,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DISTRICT OF VICKSBURG, Numbers 8.
Vicksburg, Miss., February 11, 1865.

In compliance with Special Orders, Numbers 59, extract 1, current series, from headquarters Department of Mississippi, the undersigned relinquishes the command of the district of Vicksburg to Brigadier General M. L. Smith.

C. C. WASHBURN,

Major-General, U. S. Volunteers.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DISTRICT OF WEST TENNESSEE, Numbers 9
Memphis, Tenn., February 11, 1865.

In consequence of recent changes in the staff of this district, the following offices are announced as at present on duty at these headquarters: Captain B. K, Roberts, assistant adjutant- general, U. S. Volunteers; First Lieutenant H. C. Seymour, aide- de- camp and acting assistant adjutant-general; Major R. G. Rombauer, First Illinois Light Artillery, chief of artillery; Major L. W. Clark, One hundred and eighth Illinois Infantry Volunteers, acting assistant inspector general; Major J. J. Paterson, surgeon Forty- sixth U. S. Colored Infantry, medical director; Captain H. S. Lee, Seventh Wisconsin Battery, judge- advocate; Captain J. C. Brooks, commissary of subsistence, U. S . Volunteers; First Lieutenant J. W. Wright, Second Iowa Cavalry, acting chief quartermaster; First Lieutenant A. C. Boals, One hundred and eighth Illinois Infantry Volunteers, acting ordnance office; First Lieutenant Marion Campbell, Eighth Iowa Veteran Volunteers assistant commissary of muster; Second Lieutenant A. G. Oatman, One hundred and eighth Illinois Infantry, acting assistant inspector- general; First Lieutenant De Witt Stearnes, eighth Iowa Veteran volunteer Infantry, aide- de- camp; Second Lieutenant H. Arden, Eighteenth New York Cavalry, aide- de- camp. They will be obeyed and respected accordingly.

B. S. ROGERS,

Brigadier-General of VOLUNTEERS, Commanding.


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