preparing to meet it. Captain McDonald, late of the Sixteenth Texas Infantry, gives information mainly confirmatory of previous reports and of value to this office.

I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

S. M. EATON,

Captain and Chief Signal Officer, Mil. Div. of West Mississippi.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. SIXTEENTH ARMY CORPS, Numbers 2.
Chalmette, La., February 23, 1865.

The following officers are announced as upon the staff of the major-general commanding, and will be respected and obeyed accordingly: Major John Hough, assistant adjutant-general of volunteers, assistant adjutant-general; Major J. J. Lyon, Twenty-first Missouri Veteran Volunteer Infantry, acting assistant adjutant-general; Surg. W. H. Thorne, U. S. Volunteers, medical director; Captain C. K. Drew, assistant quartermaster of volunteers, chief quartermaster; Captain George W. Baker, commissary of subsistence of volunteers, chief commissary; Captain Ross Wilkinson, Fifth Minnesota Volunteers, aide-de-camp and provost-marshal; Captain J. A. Sexton, Seventy-second Illinois Volunteers, assistant provost-marshal; Captain J. W. Lowell, Battery G, Second Illinois Light Artillery, chief of artillery; Lieutenant Hunn Hanson, Fourth Missouri Cavalry, aide-de-camp; Lieutenant John B. Pannes, Seventeenth New York Infantry, acting ordnance officer; Lieutenant W. G. Mead, Seventy-second Illinois Infantry, acting assistant adjutant-general.

By command of Major General A. J. Smith:

J. HOUGH,

Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. SIXTEENTH ARMY CORPS, Numbers 1.
Chalmette, La., February 23, 1865.

I. The Forty-ninth Regiment Missouri Volunteer Infantry, Colonel D. P. Dyer commanding, is hereby assigned to the Third Division, Sixteenth Army Corps. The commanding officer will forthwith report to Colonel J. B. Moore, commanding the division, for orders.

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By command of Major General A. M. Smith:

J. HOUGH,
Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS SIXTEENTH ARMY CORPS,

Chalmette, La., February 23, 1865.

Brigadier General J. McARTHUR,

Commanding First Division:

The major-general commanding directs that returns and requisitions be sent in at once for everything necessary to equip your command for an active field campaign.

I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

J. HOUGH,

Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.

(Same to Brigadier General K. Garrard, commanding Second Division; Colonel J. B. Moore, commanding Third Division, and Captain J. W. Lowell, commanding Artillery Brigade.)