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HEAD-QUARTERS, DISTRICT OF SAVANNAH, 
1st DIVISION DEP'T OF GEORGIA, 
Savannah, Ga., July 22d, 1865

GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 4.

The District of Savannah, 1st Division, Department of Georgia, comprising thirty-five Counties of the State of Georgia, is hereby divided into the following Sub-Districts:

I. Sub-District of Ogeechee.
1st Brigade--Headquarters at Savannah, Georgia.
Brevet Brigadier-General E. P. DAVIS, commanding:
Liberty, Bryan, Chatham, Effingham, Bulloch, Tatnall, Scriven, Montgomery, Emmanuel, Burke.

II. Sub-District of Altamaha.
2d Brigade--Headquarters at Blackshear.
Brevet Brigadier-General H. D. WASHBURN, commanding:
McIntosh, Thomas, Brooks, Lowndes, Berrien, Irwin, Coffee, Clinch, Echols, Ware, Pierce, Appling, Wayne, Charlton, Glynn, Camden.

III.Sub-District of Oomulgee.
3d Brigade--Headquarters at Hawkinsville.
Col. J. W. Blanchard, 162d N. Y. Vol. Inf., commanding:
Wilcox, Lawrence, Johnson, Telfair, Twiggs, Washington, Pulaski, Wilkinson, Jefferson.

Commanding Officers of the respective Sub-Districts will not distribute the troops of their commands in the respective counties constituting their District, but concentrate their forces at or near the Headquarters of the several Sub-Districts. 

At such periods as Commanding Offers may direct, small detachments of troops, under a competent and reliable officer, may make tours through the Sub-District. 

Commanding Officers of Sub-Districts will aid the civil authorities in the enforcement of the laws of the United States, and, upon the proper application by Agents of the Freedman's Bureau for the arrest of parties violating any of the orders appertaining to that Bureau, send such officers and troops of their command as may be necessary for the execution of the order of arrest.

All persons desiring to take the oath of allegiance, or oath of amnesty, will be required to go to the Headquarters to the Sub-District of which