III. Major-General G.H. Thomas is assigned to command the Military
Division of the Pacific.
IV. Major-General J.M. Schofield is assigned to command the Department
of the Missouri. The State of Illinois and post of Fort Smith, Ark., are
transferred to this department.
V. Brigadier and Brevet Major General O.O. Howard is assigned to command
the Department of Louisiana. Until his arrival the senior officer,
Brevet Major-General J.A. Mower, will command, according to his brevet
of major-general.
VI. The Department of Washington will be discontinued and merged in the
Department of the East. The records will be sent to the Adjutant-General
of the Army.
VII. The First Military District will be added to the Military Division
of the Atlantic.
VIII. As soon as Major-General Thomas is ready to relinquish command of
the Department of the Cumberland, the department will be discontinued,
and the States composing it will be added to other departments, to be
hereafter designated. The records will be forwarded to the
Adjutant-General of the Army.
By command of General Sherman:
E.D. TOWNSEND,
_Assistant Adjutant-General_.
WAR DEPARTMENT, _Washington City, March 26, 1869_.
By direction of the President, the order of the Secretary of War dated
War Department, March 5, 1869, and published in General Orders, No.
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