EXECUTIVE MANSION,
Washington, March 11, 1862.
Major-General McClellan having personally taken the field at
the head of the Army of the Potomac, until otherwise ordered he is relieved
from the command of the other military departments, he retaining command of the
Department of the Potomac.
Ordered further, That the departments now under the
respective commands of Generals Halleck and Hunter, together with so much of
that under General Buell as lies west of a north and south line indefinitely
drawn through Knoxville, Tenn., be consolidated and designated the Department
of the Mississippi, and that, until otherwise ordered, Major-General Halleck
have command of said department.
Ordered also, That the country west of the Department
of the Potomac and east of the Department of the Mississippi be a military
department, to be called the Mountain Department, and that the same be
commanded by Major-General Fremont.
That all the commanders of departments, after the receipt of
this order by them, respectively report severally and directly to the Secretary
of War, and that prompt, full, and frequent reports will be expected of all and
each of them.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
SOURCE: The War
of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and
Confederate Armies, Series 1, vol. 5, p. 54
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