Viewing page 167 of 185

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

HEADQUARTERS, THIRD MILITARY DISTRICT
(DEPARTMENT OF GEORGIA, FLORIDA & ALABAMA,)
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, January 11

SPECIAL ORDERS, }
No. 8. }

(Extract.)

II. - Brevet Major General WAGER SWAYNE, Colonel 45th (Veterans) Infantry, is, at his own request, relieved from the operation of [[tele]]graphic order of the General-in-Chief, requiring him to await the return of General O.L. SHEPHERD, Colonel 15th Infantry. He will [[hand?]] over the command of the District of Alabama, and the Commissionership of the Freedmen's Bureau in that State, to Brevet Brigadier General JULIUS HAYDEN, Lieutenant Colonel 15th Infantry.

By Order of Major General Meade:
R. C. DRUM,
Assistant Adjutant General.

OFFICIAL:
G K Sanderson
Captain and Acting Assistant Adjutant General.

[[stamp]] RECEIVED OF [[/stamp]]

Bvt. Brig. General O.L. Shepherd
[[?]] Infantry