J. H. Hammond to Edwin M. Stanton, November 12, 1862

November 12, 1862.

No. 93. } Memphis, November 12, 1862.

The troops now at Memphis and arriving will be arranged into five brigades :

First Brigade, Brig. Gen. M. L. Smith.—Eighth Missouri, Col. Giles A. Smith; Sixth Missouri, Col. Peter E. Bland; One hundred and thirteenth Illinois, Col. George B. Hoge; Fifty-fourth Ohio, Col. T. Kilby Smith ; One hundred and twentieth Illinois, Col. G. W. McKeaig.

Second Brigade, Col. J. Adair McDowell.—Sixth Iowa, Lieut. Col. J. M. Corse; Fortieth [linois, Lieut. Col. J. W. Boothe; Forty-sixth Ohio, Lieut. Col. C. C. Waleutt ; Thirteenth U. 8. Infantry, Maj. D. Chase.

Third Brigade, Brig. Gen. J. W. Denver.—Forty-eighth Ohio, Col. P. J. Sullivan ; Fifty-third Ohio, Col. W. S. Jones; Seventieth Ohio, Col. J. R. Cockerill.

Fourth Brigade, Ool. David Stuart.—Fifty-fifth Illinois, Lieut. Col. O. Malmborg ; Fifty-seventh Ohio, Col. W. Mungen; Eighty-third Indiana, Colonel Spooner; One hundred and sixteenth Illinois, Colonel Tupper; One hundred and twenty-seventh Dlinois, Lieutenant-Colonel Eldridge.

Fifth Brigade, Col. R. P. Buckland.—Seventy-second Ohio, Lieut. Col. D. W. C. Loudon; Thirty-second Wisconsin, Col. J. H. Howe; Ninety-third Illinois, Maj. J. M. Fisher commanding ; Ninety-third Indiana, Colonel Thomas commanding.

These brigades will be arranged into two divisions :

First Division, Brigadier-General Denver commanding.—Second, Third, and Fifth Brigades.

General Denver will have his headquarters in Fort Pickering, and will be considered the commander thereof, and will give all necessary orders for its guard, police, &c.

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Second Division, Brig. Gen. M. L. Smith commanding.—First and Fourth Brigades.

General Smith will be considered specially in command of the outer lines, and will give his attention to the location of camps, their police and discipline. Headquarters on Poplar street.

II. All the troops at Memphis will prepare at once for field service. Hach regiment will reduce its baggage and transportation to the standard fixed in General Orders, No. 160, from the Headquarters of the Army, and will pay special attention to their arms, ammunition, and equipments.

Ill. The First Division will draw their supplies of provisions from Captain Morton, commissary of subsistence, in the warehouse at Fort Pickering.

The Second Division will draw their supplies from Captain Hinsdill, commissary of subsistence on board the wharf-boat. Quartermaster and ordnance supplies will as heretofore be drawn from Capt. J. Condit Smith, assistant quartermaster, and Captain Neely, ordnance officer, Fort Pickering. Capt. H.S. Fitch is announced as post quartermaster, specially charged with the administration of his department at Memphis, and Captain Swain, assistant quartermaster, charged with the transportation department and such other duties as may be assigned him.

IV. The regiments to arrive will be assigned to brigades to fill ap the blanks in the brigades, and will at once report to their respective brigadiers, who will at once instruct them in their duties.

VY. Commanders of divisions and brigades will at once fill their respective staffs and anuounce their names and Office in orders. All such staff officers must be well mounted, and if they be not entitled by law to horses their commanders will make the necessary requisitions for approval and order at these headquarters. Officers acting as staff oflicers and mounted orderlies are entitled to forage drawn on returns, the same as officers and men of like rank in the cavalry service.

VI. The commanding general expects all officers now to vie with each other in the display of soldierly zeal, for all have now had most valu. able experience under all the circumstances to which soldiers are usually exposed. Let all marches and military movements be conducted in compact, good order, in cheerfulness and silence, and honor and fame will be our certain reward.

By order of Maj. Gen. W. T. Sherman :

Assistant Adjutant-General.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL., November 13, 1862—10.30 a. m.
Hon. E. M. STANTON,
Secretary of War:
Five regiments Indiana infantry left yesterday for Memphis, and the
Sixty-third Regiment Indiana Infantry will leave to-day. I infer that
General Grant claims the right to change their destination, and to control all the troops sent to Columbus and Memphis.