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By Isaac Benson, of Pennsylvania, the appointment of Paymaster and Military Storekeeper in the Orduance Department, to date from March 27, 1861. Died, (10.)

Colonel and Brevet Brigadier General John Garland, 8th Infantry, at New York City, N. Y., June 5, 1861.

Captain George H. Derby, Corps of Topographical Engineers, at New York City, N. Y., May 15, 1861.

Captain Otis H. Tillinghast, Assistant Quartermaster, of wounds received at the battle of Bull Run, Va., July 23, 1861.

First Lieutenant James B. Greene, 1st Infantry, near Fort Hamilton, N. Y., June 24, 1861.

First Lieutenant John T. Greble, 2d Artillery, killed in action at Big Bethel, Va., June 10, 1861.

First Lieutenant John Tipton, 3d Artillery, at Benicia Barracks, Cal., May 17, 1861.

First Lieutenant Douglas Ramsay, 1st Artillery, killed in the battle of Bull Run, V., July 21, 1861.

Second Lieutenant Presley O. Craig, 2d Artillery, killed in the battle of Bull Run, Va., July 21, 1861.

Surgeon Richard F. Simpson, at Key West Barracks, Fla., July 4, 1861. Assistant Surgeon Calvin G. Hollinbush, at McKey's Half Falls, Pa., August 6, 1861.

Dropped, (3.)

Captain Robert R. Garland, 7th Infantry, May 23, 1861.

First Lieutenant James Deshler, 10th Infantry, July 15, 1861.
First Lieutenant Edward J. Brooks, 7th Infantry, May 16, 1861.

Dismissed, (24.)

Captain Carter L. Stevenson, 5th Infantry, June 25, 1861.

Captain Dabney II. Maury, Assistant Adjutant General, June 25, 1861.
Captain Charles H. Tyler, 2d Dragoons, June 6, 1861.

Captain Beverly H. Robertson, 2d Dragoons, August 8, 1861.

Captain John McNab, 10th Infantry, July 1, 1861.

First Lieutenant James E. Slaughter, 1st Artillery, May 14, 1861.

First Lieutenant Andrew Jackson, 3d Infantry, June 6, 1861.

First Lieutenant William T. Welcker, Ordnance Department, July 22, 1861. First Lieutenant John Thomas Goode, 4th Artillery, July 3, 1861.

Second Lieutenant Edward Dillon, 6th Infantry, June 25, 1861. Second Lieutenant, William W. McCreery, 4th Artillery, June 3, 1861. Second Lieutenant Nathaniel R. Chambliss, 3d Artillery, May 25, 1861. Second Lieutenant Olin F. Rice, 6th Infantry, June 6, 1861. Second Lieutenant Charles E. Patterson, 4th Infantry, June 6, 1861. Second Lieutenant Charles C. Campbell, 1st Cavalry, June 6, 1861. Brevet Second Lieutenant John M. Kerr, of the Regiment of Mounted Riflemen, July 13, 1861.

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Brevet Second Lieutenant Llewellyn G. Hoxton, Ordnance Department, May 25, 1861.

Brevet Second Lieutenant Clarence Derrick, of the Corps of Engineers, July 16, 1861.

Brevet Second Lieutenant James P. Parker, 4th Infantry, July 16, 1861. Brevet Second Lieutenant Frank A. Reynolds, 2d Dragoons, July 16, 1861. Assistant Surgeon Lafayette Guild, July 1, 1861.

Assistant Surgeon David P. Ramseur, August 17, 1861.

Paymaster Albert J. Smith, June 20, 1861.

Paymaster and Military Storekeeper, Dennis Murphy, Ordnance Department, July 19, 1861.

Dismissed under the act of January 31, 1823. (2.)

First Lieutenant, Walter H. Stevens, Corps of Engineers, May 2, 1861.
First Lieutenant Charles H. Rundell, 4th Infantry, June 6, 1861.

V. Officers have been arranged, in the foregoing order, to the companies to which they succeeded in the natural course of promotion or appointment. Should a different assignment, however, have since been made by competent authority, it will take precedence of the former.

VI. The number prefixed to the name of each of the Second Lieutenants, in the above list of appointments, indicates his rank among those of the same date.

VII. Acceptance or non-acceptance of appointments, and in case of acceptance, the birthplace of the officer appointed, his age and residence when appointed, will in every case be promptly reported to the Adjutant General.

VIII. With the exception of those on special duty, and of the Second Lieutenants appointed to companies on the Pacific coast, who will report at once for further orders, the officers promoted and appointed will join their proper regiments, companies, and stations without delay. Those recently appointed, who fail to do so within a reasonable time, will be considered as having declined their appointments.

BY ORDER:

L. THOMAS, Adjutant General.

General Orders,}

No.

WAR DEP'T, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, August 23, 1861. The following revised edition of General Orders No. 33, of June 18, 1861, shows the appointments made by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and by the President alone, since the adjournment of the Senate, in the eleven new regiments added to the military establishment by the President's Proclamation of May 4, 1861, as confirmed and ratified by the act of Congress approved July 29, 1861.

Those made by the President, alone, are designated by a star.

SIXTH REGIMENT OF CAVALRY.

Paymaster David Hunter, to be Colonel, May 14, 1861.

William H. Emory, of Maryland, to be Lieutenant Colonel, May 14, 1861.
Edward II. Wright, of New Jersey, to be Major, May 14, 1861.

TO BE CAPTAINS.

Captain Isaiah N. Moore, of the First Dragoons, April 20, 1861.
To date from May 14, 1861.

First Lieutenant August V. Kautz, of the Fourth Infantry.
First Lieutenant Andrew W. Evans, of the Seventh Infantry.
First Lieutenant William S. Abert, of the Fourth Artillery.
First Lieutenant David McM. Gregg, of the First Dragoons.
First Lieutenant Joseph H. Taylor, of the First Cavalry.
J. Irvin Gregg, of the Volunteers.

John Savage, of Maryland.

Charles R. Lowell, of Massachusetts.

To date from August 5, 1861.

Second Lieutenant James S. Brisbin, of the First Dragoons.
Henry B. Hays, of Pennsylvania.

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TO BE FIRST LIEUTENANTS.-To date from May 14, 1861.

Second Lieutenant Herbert M. Enos, of the Regiment of Mounted Riflemen. Second Lieutenant Ira W. Claflin, of the Regiment of Mounted Riflemen. Sewell H. Brown of Pennsylvania.

Benjamin T. Hutchins, of the Volunteers.

Hancock T. McLean, of Kentucky.

Tattnall Paulding, at large.
Frederick Dodge, of Nebraska.

John B. Johnson, of the Volunteers.

James F. Wade, of Ohio.

To date from August 5, 1861.

Henry Tucker, of the Volunteers.

TO BE SECOND LIEUTENANTS.-To date from May 14, 1861.

First Sergeant John W. Spangler, of Company H, Second Cavalry.

First Sergeant Peter McGrath, of Company I, Regiment of Mounted Riflemen. First Sergeant Hugh McQuade, of Company F, Regiment of Mounted Rifle

men.

Sergeant Curwen B. McLellan, of Company H, Second Cavalry.

To date from August 20, 1861.

*Sergeant Stephen Balk, of the Sixth Cavalry.

FIFTH REGIMENT OF ARTILLERY.

Brevet Colonel Harvy Brown, of the Fourth Artillery, to be Colonel, May 14, 1861.

Major Thomas W. Sherman, of the Third Artillery, to be Lieutenant Colonel May 14, 1861.

TO BE MAJORS.-To date from May 14, 1861.
Brevet Major Thomas Williams, of the Fourth Artillery.
Captain William F. Barry, of the Second Artillery.
Brevet Major Henry J. Hunt, of the Second Artillery.

TO BE CAPTAINS.

Captain George W. Getty, of the Fourth Artillery, November 4, 1853.
Captain James A. Hardie, of the Third Artillery, October 5, 1857.
Captain Truman Seymour, of the First Artillery, November 22, 1860.
Captain Charles Griffin, of the Second Artillery, April 25, 1861.
Captain Samuel F. Chalfin, of the First Artillery, April 27, 1861.

To date from May 4, 1861.

First Lieutenant Romeyn B. Ayres, of the Third Artillery.
First Lieutenant Richard Arnold, of the Third Artillery.
First Lieutenant William R. Terrill, of the Fourth Artillery.
First Lieutenant Stephen H. Weed, of the Fourth Artillery
First Lieutenant John R. Smead, of the Second Artillery.
First Lieutenant Henry V. De Hart, of the Third Artillery.
James McKnight of the Volunteers.

TO BE FIRST LIEUTENANTS.

First Lieutenant Herbert A. Hascal, of the Fourth Artillery, September 27, 1859.

First Lieutenant Edmund C. Bainbridge, of the Fourth Artillery, November 2, 1859.

First Lieutenant Lorenzo Lorain, of the Third Artillery, January 2, 1860. First Lieutenant Loomis L. Langdon, of the First Artillery, July 13, 1860. First Lieutenant George A. Kensel, of the Fourth Artillery, March 1, 1861. First Lieutenant John W. Barriger, of the Second Artillery, May 2, 1861.

To date from May 14, 1861.

Second Lieutenant Francis L. Guenther, of the Fourth Artillery.
Second Lieutenant Norman J. Hall, of the First Artillery.

Second Lieutenant Henry A. Du Pont, of the Corps of Engineers.
Second Lieutenant Henry W. Kingsbury, of the Ordnance Department.
Second Lieutenant Adelbert Ames, of the Second Artillery.
Second Lieutenant Emory Upton, of the Fourth Artillery.
Second Lieutenant Charles E. Hazlett, of the Second Cavalry.
Second Lieutenant Malbone F. Watson, of the First Cavalry.
Second Lieutenant Jacob A. Smyser, of the Third Artillery.
Second Lieutenant Jacob B. Rawles, of the Third Artillery.
Second Lieutenant Leonard Martin, of the Fourth Artillery.
Eben G. Scott, of the Volunteers.
David H. Vecch, of Pennsylvania.
Thomas Williams, jr., of Pennsylvania.

Charles P. Muhlenberg, of the Volunteers.

James W. Piper, of the Volunteers.

Valentine H. Stone, of the Volunteers.

TO BE SECOND LIEUTENANTS.-To date from May 14, 1861.

Wallace F. Randolph, of the Volunteers.

Henry L. Gansevoort, of New York.

Thomas P. McElrath, of New York.

Henry F. Brewerton, at large.

Benjamin F. Rittenhouse, of New Jersey.

David H, Kinzie, of Kansas.

John R. Brincklé, of Delaware.

Gulian V. Weir, at large.

Howard M. Burnham, of Massachusetts.

James Gilliss, at large.

Edmund D. Spooner, of Ohio.

William E. Van Reed, of the Volunteers.

Charles C. McConnell, of the Volunteers.

Horatio B. Reed, of New York.

Israel Ludlow, of Ohio.

Charles R. Hickox, of Ohio.

Elijah R. Craft, of Ohio.

Henry M. Baldwin, of New Jersey.

Homer H. Baldwin, of Ohio.

William Butler Beck, of Pennsylvania.

George W. Crabb, of Pennsylvania.

To date from August 5, 1861.

Charles H. Carroll, of the District of Columbia.

ELEVENTH REGIMENT OF INFANTRY.

Major Erasmus D. Keyes, of the First Artillery, to be Colonel, May 14, 1881. Edmund Schriver, of New York, to be Lieutenant Colonel, May 14, 1861.

TO BE MAJORS.-To date from May 14, 1861.

Captain Delancey Floyd Jones, of the Fourth Infantry.

Captain Frederick Steele, of the Second Infantry.
Jonathan W. Gordon, of Indiana.

TO BE CAPTAINS.-To date from May 14, 1861.
First Lieutenant John S. Mason, of the Third Artillery.
First Lieutenant John M. Schofield, of the First Artillery.
First Lieutenant William McE. Dye, of the Eighth Infantry.
First Lieutenant Alfred E. Latimer, of the Second Infantry.
First Lieutenant Alexander S. Webb, of the Second Artillery.

Military Storekeeper, George Gibson, jr., of the Quartermaster's Department. Charles S. Russell, of Indiana.

John M. Goodhue, of Massachusetts.

Henry Hambright, of the Volunteers.

Charles C. Pomeroy, of Ohio.

Francis M. Cooley, of the Volunteers.

Henry L. Chipman, of Michigan.
William B. Lowe, of Ohio.

James M. Cutts, jr., of Illinois.
William W. Peck, of Illinois.

Thomas O. Barri, of the Volunteers.
John W. Ames, of Massachusetts.
James Elder, of the Volunteers.

To date from August 5, 1861.

James R. Lawrence, of Pennsylvania.
Thomas W. Newman, of Iowa.
Henry G. Thomas, of Maine.

Caleb R. Layton, of Delaware.

William G. Edgerton, of Vermont.

TO BE FIRST LIEUTENANTS.-To date from May 14, 1861.

Second Lieutenant Henry C. Wood, of the First Infantry.

Second Lieutenant Charles E. Farrand, of the First Infantry.

Second Lieutenant William J. L. Nicodemus, of the Fifth Infantry.
Joshua S. Fletcher, jr., of Pennsylvania.

John C. Bates, of Missouri.

Guido N. Lieber, of New York.

Duncan M. Vance, of Ohio.

Joseph M. Ritner, of Indiana.

Herbert Kenaston, of Ohio.

John W. Gray, of California.

George T. Ingham, of the Volunteers.

George E. Head, of Massachusetts.

Edward R. Parry, of Minnesota.

Daniel R. Coit, of Wisconsin.

Charles I. Pleasants, of the Volunteers.

Robert B. Smith, of the Volunteers.

George H. Higbee, of Ohio.

John H. Patterson, of the Volunteers.

William II. Chesebrough, of the Volunteers.

To date from August 5, 1861.

William F. Greeley, of New Hampshire.

Martin Elder, of Michigan.

Charles A. Hartwell, of Massachusetts.

To date from August 20, 1861.

*Charles Leib, of Illinois.

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