(Special to Tribune.)
WASHINGTON, March 3. – The following nominations were made
to the Senate to-day as Major Generals: McDowell, Burnside, Buell, Pope, Lewis
and Wallace. As Brigadier Generals,
Cols. Oglesby, W. H. Luella, Cook, McArthur and J. G. Lauman, who commanded
brigades at Donelson. Col. Berry of
Maine and Fry of Connecticut, are to rank in the order named – Gen. McDowell
thus out ranks the rest and out ranks
Sigel.
In Answer to a requisition of the Senate, the Secretary of
War incloses [sic] the instructions of the Adjutant General to Gen. Hunter
touching the Hunter Lane expedition, dated Jan. 20.
The order to Gen. Hunter says the General in Chief, in
giving you this information, desires it to be understood that a command
independent of you is not given to Gen. Lane, but he is to operate to all
proper extent, under your supervision and control and if you deem propert, you
may yourself, command the expedition which may be undertaken.
Under these circumstances the General in Chief will not give
you a formal leave according to your instructions, but he authorizes you to
absent yourself from your command for 30 days at your discretion.
The Herald’s Washington dispatch says it is understood that
arrangements have been made for release from their parole of all the officers
of our army, regulars and volunteers, who have been out on parole by the
enemy. We have such a host of rebel
prisoners that there is no longer need that a single officer or private shall
be any longer on parole.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye,
Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 8, 1862, p. 3
