FROM WASHINGTON: Important Military Order from the President; General Grant Assigned as General-in-Chief (3/15/1864)

New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 3/15/1864

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IMPORTANT MILITARY ORDER.

WASHINGTON, Monday, Feb. 14.

The following important order has just been published:

WAR DEPARTMENT, ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE, WASHINGTON, March 12,1864.

GENERAL ORDERS NO. 98:

The President of the United States orders as follows:

First -- Major-Gen. HALLECK is, at his own request, relieved from duty as General-in-Chief of the Army, and Lieut.-Gen. U.S. Grant is assigned to the command of the armies of the United States. The Headquarters of the Army will be in Washington, and also with Lieut.-Gen. GRANT in the field.

Second. -- Major-Gen. HALLECK is assigned to duty in Washington as Chief of Staff of the Army, under the direction of the Secretary of War and the Lieut.-Gen. Commanding; his orders will be obeyed and respected accordingly.

Third. -- Maj. Gen. W.T. SHERMAN is assigned to the command of the Military Division of the Mississippi, composed of the departments of the Ohio, the Cumberland, the Tennessee and the Arkansas.

Fourth. -- Maj.-Gen. J.B. MCPHERSON is assigned to the command of the Department and Army of the Tennessee.

Fifth -- In relieving Major-Gen. HALLECK from duty as General-in-Chief, the President desires to express his approbation and thanks for the able and zealous manner in which the arduous and responsible duties of that position have been performed.

By order of the Secretary of War.

E.D. TOWNSEND, Asst. Adjt.-Gen.

THE COURT-MARTIAL OF ADMIRAL WILKES.

In the Wilkes Court-Martial, to-day, Commander BALDWIN'S testimony was concluded, and the day was consumed in his cross-examination. The substance of his testimony was that the Vanderbilt was in a good state of efficiency when the accused transferred his flag to her; that while under his command the accused, from the 26th day of February to the 13th of June, she was fifty days at anchor;

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