things require, but I cannot patiently submit to what I regard as a systematic policy which is injurious to this division, and which has all the effects of injustice.

I earnestly hope that this application may receive favorable attention, and am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

C. C. ANDREWS,

Brigadier-General, Commanding.

JUNE 21, 1864.

(Received 5.45 p. m.)

His Excellency the PRESIDENT,

Washington, D. C.:

As there may be a leak, I report to you that an intercepted letter to Wallandigham says two corps have been ordered from Sherman secretly to Grant.

W. S. ROSECRANS,

Major-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
WAR DEPT., ADJT. GENERAL'S OFFICE, Numbers 215.
Washington, June 21, 1864.

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8. The following assignment of officers of the Engineer Corps is hereby made, and they will report in person, without delay, as follows: Captain M. D. McAlester, Lieutenant A. H. Burnham, Lieutenant C. J. Allen, to the commanding general Military Division of West Mississippi.

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56. Colonel Lewis Merrill, of Merrill's Horse (Second Missouri Cavalry), will relieve Brigadier General Edward Hatch, U. S. Volunteers, in command of the Cavalry Depot at Saint Louis, Mo.

57. Brigadier General Edward Hatch, U. S. Volunteers, on being relieved from the command of the Cavalry Depot at Saint Louis, Mo., will report in person to Major-General Wasburn, U. S. Volunteers, commanding District of West Tennessee, Memphis, Tenn.

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By order of the Secretary of War:

E. D. TOWNSEND,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

SAINT LOUIS, MO., June 21, 1864.

Commodore PORTER,

Cairo, Ill.:

The presence of one gun-boat near New Madrid would add so much to its safety in case of a raid from Shelby, which the people of Southern Missouri seen to apprehend, that I beg to ask, if possible, that one on the Cairo station may be sent to that point and vicinity.

W. S. ROSECRANS,

Major-General.