A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 742 pages of information about A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents.

A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 742 pages of information about A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents.

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  Major-General David Hunter, United States Volunteers. 
  Major-General Lewis Wallace, United States Volunteers. 
  Brevet Major-General August V. Kautz, United States Volunteers. 
  Brigadier-General Albion P. Howe, United States Volunteers. 
  Brigadier-General Robert S. Foster, United States Volunteers. 
  Brevet Brigadier-General Cyrus B. Comstock,[A] United States Volunteers. 
  Brigadier-General T.M.  Harris, United States Volunteers. 
  Brevet Colonel Horace Porter,[B] aid-de-camp. 
  Lieutenant-Colonel David R. Clendenin, Eighth Illinois Cavalry. 
  Brigadier-General Joseph Holt, Judge-Advocate-General, United States
    Army, is appointed the judge-advocate and recorder of the commission,
    to be aided by such assistant or special judge-advocate as he may
    designate.

The commission will sit without regard to hours.

By order of the President of the United States: 

E.D.  TOWNSEND,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

[Footnote 3:  Brevet Brigadier-General James A. Ekin substituted; see Special Orders, No. 216.]

[Footnote 4:  Brevet Colonel C. H. Tompkins substituted; see Special Orders, No. 216.]

WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington City, May 7, 1865.

Brigadier-General Holt, Judge-Advocate-General, having designated the Hon. John A. Bingham as a special judge-advocate, whose aid he requires in the prosecution of Herold and others before the military commission of which Major-General Hunter is presiding officer: 

It is ordered, That the said John A. Bingham be, and he is hereby, appointed special judge-advocate for the purpose aforesaid, to aid the Judge-Advocate-General, pursuant to the order of the President in respect to said military commission.

By order of the President: 

EDWIN M. STANTON,

Secretary of War.

SPECIAL ORDERS.  No. 216.

WAR DEPARTMENT,
  ADJUTANT-GENERAL’S OFFICE,
    Washington, May 9, 1865.

* * * * *

91.  Brevet Brigadier-General Cyrus B. Comstock, United States Volunteers, and Brevet Colonel Horace Porter, aid-de-camp, are hereby relieved from duty as members of the military commission appointed in Special Orders, No. 211, paragraph 4, dated “War Department, Adjutant-General’s Office, Washington, May 6, 1865,” and Brevet Brigadier-General James A. Ekin, United States Volunteers, and Brevet Colonel C.H.  Tompkins, United States Army, are detailed in their places, respectively.

The commission will be composed as follows: 

  Major-General David Hunter, United States Volunteers. 
  Major-General Lewis Wallace, United States Volunteers. 
  Brevet Major-General August V. Kautz, United States Volunteers. 
  Brigadier-General Albion P. Howe, United States Volunteers. 

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