SPECIAL ORDERS, | ADJT. AND INSP. GENERAL’S OFFICE, January 7, 1864

No. 5. J January 7, 1864.

XV. Paragraph XVIII, Special Orders, No. 298, and paragraph XVIII, Special Orders, No. 300, Adjutant and Inspector General’s

Office, December 1 [16 and 18], 1863, are amended so as to retain temporarily on duty in the conscript service the officers and men hitherto under the orders of Brigadier-General Pillow in the States of Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi who have not already been relieved.* They will receive orders from Col. John 8. Preston, chief of Bureau of Conscription.

XVI. Brigadier-General Pillow is allowed such time as may be necessary to adjust the unsettled matters pertaining to his late duties before reporting to the general commanding the Army of Tennessee.

* * * * * * * JNO. WITHERS, Assistant Adjutant-General.