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directs that you supply from your present command the proper guards necessary for the safe-keeping of public property and guarding the parole camp, &c., at Annapolis, Md.
Very respectfully, &c.,
E. D. TOWNSEND,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
GENERAL ORDERS, WAR DEPT., ADJT., GENERAL'S OFFICE, No. 293. Washington, December 1, 1864.
The Department of the Susquehana will hereafter be known as the Department of Pennsylvania, headquarters at Philadephia.
By order of the Secretary of War:
E. D. TOWNSEND,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPT. OF THE SUSQUEHANNA, No. 74. Chambersburg, Pa., December 1, 1864.In obedience to the orders of the lieutenant-general commanding the Armies of the United States I hereby relinquish command of the Department of the Susquehanna.
In so doing I desire to express my sincere thanks to the officers in charge of the several staff departments and those in command of district and posts for the able and satisfactory manner in which they have discharged their duties; and to the chief executive of the State, the heads of the different State departments, and to the citizens generally, for their hearty co-operation in my endeavors to maintain law and order, and their cordial support to the measures adopted for their protection.
D. N. COUCH,
Major-General, U. S. Volunteers.
GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPT. OF THE SUSQUEHANNA, No. 77. Chambersburg, Pa., December 1, 1864.I. Cumberland, Franklin, Adams, and York Counties, Pa., are annexed to the Juniata District.
II. The headquarters of the Juniata District will be at Chambersburg, Pa.
By command of Major-General Cadwalader:
JNO. S. SCHULTZE,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE SUSQUEHANNA,
Chambersburg, Pa., December 1, 1864.Brigadier General O. S. FERRY,
Commanding Juniata District, Bedford, Pa.:
Your district will be extended to include Cumberland, Franklin, Adams, and York Counties, headquarters at Chambersburg, Pa. You will please establish your headquarters in accordance with the above as soon as you can conveniently. Please acknowledge.
By command of Major-General Cadwalader:
JNO. S. SCHULTZE,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
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