All reports, returns and communications heretofore required
to be sent to these headquarters, be addressed to the proper staff officers of “The
Mountain Department, Wheeling, Virginia.”
Brigadier General Garfield, and other commanders of troops in the
Department of Ohio, now included in the “Mountain Department,” will hereafter
address their reports, returns, and letters to the proper Headquarters.
As senior officer on duty, the undersigned retains command
of the Mountain Department until further orders.
(Signed.)
W. S. ROSECRANS,
Brigadier General. U.
S. A.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye,
Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 29, 1862, p. 1
No comments:
Post a Comment