Order

E.D. Townsend to Maj. Frank W. Marston, September 3, 1864

SPECIAL ORDERS,) WAR DEPT., ADJT. GENERAL’S OFFICE,

No. 292. Washington, September 3, 1864.

41, Paragraph 39, Special Orders, No. 273, August 17, 1864, from this office,* relieving Maj. Frank W. Marston, inspector, Signal Corps, U. 8. Army, from duty in command of signal detachment, Department of the Gulf, and ordering him at once to enter upon duty as inspector of the signal detachments in the Departments of the Gulf, Kansas, the Cumberland, the Tennessee, and the Ohio, respectively, is hereby revoked.

By order of the Secretary of War:

E. D. TOWNSEND,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
SPECIAL ORDERS, ) HpDqQRs. MIL. Div. OF WEST MISSISSIPPI,
No. 117. ; New Orleans, La., September 3, 1864.
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5. The field transportation of the First Division, Seventeenth Army
Corps, now at Vicksburg, Miss., will be transferred to the Second
Division, Nineteenth Army Corps, at such time and place as the commanding general Nineteenth Army Corps may direct.
Editor's Notes
From: Operations in Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas, Indian Territory, Pt. 1. Summary: E. D. Townsend revokes Major Frank W. Marston's reassignment order and restores him as inspector of signal detachments across multiple Union Army departments during the Civil War.
Sources
The War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 41, Part 1 View original source ↗