ST. LOUIS, March 12. – The following General Order will be
issued in the morning:
HEADQUARTERS
DEPTARTMENT OF MISSISSIPPI.
In compliance with the orders of the President of the United
States the undersigned hereby assumes command of the Department of the
Mississippi, which includes the present Department of Kansas and the Missouri
and the Department of Ohio and country west of a north and south line drawn
through Knoxville, Tennessee, and East of
the western boundaries of the States of Missouri and Arkansas. – The Headquarters
of the Department of the Mississippi will remain, till further orders, at Saint
Louis. Commanding officers not in the
Department of Missouri will report at these headquarters the strength and
position of their several commands.
(Signed:)
H. W. HALLECK,
Major-General, Commanding.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye,
Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 15, 1862, p. 3
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