tricts will abstain from all acts of retaliation on account of the outrages committed by rebel marauders, and that the proper measures of redress will be left to the action of the public authorities.

By command of Major-General Dix:

D. T. VAN BUREN,

Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.

(Telegraphed by General Dix to Secretary Stanton.)

SPECIAL ORDERS,
WAR DEPT., ADJT. GENERAL'S OFFICE, No. 449.
Washington, December 15, 1864.

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38. Colonel M. N. Wisewell, Sixth Regiment Veteran Reserve Corps, is relieved from duty as military governor of the District of Columbia, and will turn over the office and all books, papers, orders, records, money, and public property to General Augur, commander of the department, and will proceed without delay to join him regiment at Johnson's Island, Sandusky, Ohio.

39. Major-General Augur, commanding the Department of Washington, will hereafter perform the duties that were assigned to the military governor, and take charge of the office and of all books, papers, orders, records, and public property in the hands of the military governor. Colonel Ingraham, provost-marshal, and the other officers on duty with the military governor will immediately report to General Augur.

40. Brevet Brigadier General Roy Stone, U. S. Volunteers, is hereby relieved from the command of the depot for volunteers at Camp Curtin, Harrisburg, Pa., and will at once repair to Alton Ill., and relieve Brigadier General J. T. Copeland, U. S. Volunteers, in the command of the military prison and post at that place. He will report by letter to the commanding general Department of the Missouri.

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By order of the Secretary of War:

E. D. TOWNSEND,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. MIDDLE MILITARY DIVISION, No. 112.
December 15, 1864.

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2. Captain G. L. Gillespie, Corps of Engineers, U. S. Army, having reported for duty at these headquarters, is hereby announced as serving on the staff of the major-general commanding to date from November 11, 1864.

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4. Battery M, Fifth U. S. Artillery, is hereby temporarily assigned to duty with the Department of West Virginia.

5. The Fifth Maine Battery is hereby temporarily assigned to duty with the Nineteenth Army Corps.

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By command of Major-General Sheridan:

C. KINGSBURY, JR.,

Assistant Adjutant-General.