I. Brevet Major-General E.O.C.  Ord will turn over the command of the Fourth Military District to Brevet Major-General A.C.  Gillem, and proceed to San Francisco, Cal., to take command of the Department of California.

II.  On being relieved by Brevet Major-General Ord, Brevet Major-General Irvin McDowell will proceed to Vicksburg, Miss., and relieve General Gillem in command of the Fourth Military District.

III.  Brevet Major-General John Pope is hereby relieved of the command of the Third Military District, and will report without delay at the Headquarters of the Army for further orders, turning over his command to the next senior officer until the arrival of his successor.

IV.  Major-General George G. Meade is assigned to the command of the Third Military District, and will assume it without delay.  The Department of the East will be commanded by the senior officer now on duty in it until a commander is named by the President.

V. The officers assigned in the foregoing orders to command of military districts will exercise therein any and all powers conferred by acts of Congress upon district commanders, and also any and all powers pertaining to military-department commanders.

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By command of General Grant: 

E.D.  TOWNSEND,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

GENERAL ORDERS, No. 10.

HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY,

ADJUTANT-GENERAL’S OFFICE,

Washington, February 12, 1868.

The following orders are published for the information and guidance of all concerned: 

EXECUTIVE MANSION,

Washington, D.C., February 12, 1868.

General U.S.  GRANT,

Commanding Armies of the United States, Washington, D.C.

GENERAL:  You will please issue an order creating a military division, to be called the Military Division of the Atlantic, to be composed of the Department of the Lakes, the Department of the East, and the Department of Washington, and to be commanded by Lieutenant-General William T. Sherman, with his headquarters at Washington.

Until further orders from the President, you will assign no officer to the permanent command of the Military Division of the Missouri.

Respectfully, yours,

ANDREW JOHNSON.

Major-General P.H.  Sheridan, the senior officer in the Military Division of the Missouri, will temporarily perform the duties of commander of the Military Division of the Missouri, in addition to his duties of department commander.

By command of General Grant: 

E.D.  TOWNSEND,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

EXECUTIVE MANSION,

Washington, D.C., February 21, 1868.

Hon. EDWIN M. STANTON,