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[[stamp]] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES [[/stamp]]

WAR DEPARTMENT,
ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE,
Washington, July 27th, 1865.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
NO. 402.
(Extract.)

28. By direction of the President, Major Cornelius Cadle, Jr., Assistant Adjutant General, U.S. Volunteers, is hereby relieved from assignment as Assistant Adjutant General. 17th Army Corps, with the rank and pay of Lieutenant-Colonel, under Act of July 17th, 1862, to take effect the 28th instant, and will report in person, without delay, to Brigadier-General Swayne, Assistant Commissioner of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands for Alabama, at Montgomery, Alabama.

By order of the Secretary of War:
E.D. TOWNSEND,
Assistant Adjutant General.

OFFICIAL:
E.D Townsend
Assistant Adjutant General.

General Swayne
thro Gen. Howard

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include Archives stamp, as directed by SI staff during "Online Office Hours" on 3-19-21