SPECIAL ORDERS,
WAR DEPT., ADJT. GENERAL'S OFFICE, Numbers 292.
Washington, September 3, 1864.

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41. Paragraph 39, Special Orders, Numbers 273, August 17, 1864, from this office,* relieving Major Frank W. Marston, inspector, Signal Corps, U. S. Army, from duty in command of signal detachment, Department of the Gulf, and ordering him at once to enter upon duty as inspector of the signal detachments in the Departments of the Gulf, Kansas, the Cumberland, th Tennessee, and the Ohio, respectively, is hereby revoked.

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By order of the Secretary of War:

E. D. TOWNSEND,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. MIL. DIV. OF WEST MISSISSIPPI, Numbers 117.
New Orleans, La., September 3, 1864.

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5. The field transportation of the First Division Seventeenth Army Corps, now at Vicksburg, Miss., will be transferred to the Second Division, Nineteenth Army Corps, at such time and place as the commanding general Nineteenth Army Corps may direct.

6. The Seventeenth Ohio and Second Connecticut Batteries, now on duty at Mobile Bay, will proceed as soon as practicable to this city, and report upon arrival to Major General J. J. Reynolds, commanding Nineteenth Army Corps. The chief quartermaster of this division will cause the necessary transportation to be furnished without delay.

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

C. T. CHRISTENSEN,
Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. NINETEENTH ARMY CORPS, Numbers 191.
New Orleans, September 3, 1864.

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2. The commanding officer Twenty-eighth Illinois Volunteers will hold his regiment in readiness to embark as soon as transportation may be furnished, joining its division from Morganza.

3. The commanding officer Twenty-ninth Illinois Volunteers will hold his regiment in readiness to embark as soon as transportation may be furnished, joining its division from Morganza.

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By command of Major General J. J. Reynolds:

S. C. FARRINGTON,

Captain and Aide-de-Camp.

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* See Part II, p. 740.

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