SECOND REGIMENT OF DRAGOONS.

5. Theophilus T. Rodenbough, of Pennsylvania, to be Second Lieutenant, vice Livingston, promoted, to date from March 27, 1861. [Company E.]

FIRST REGIMENT OF CAVALRY.

Thomas B. Alexander, of Washington Territory, to be Second Lieutenant, vice Thompson, promoted, to date from February 21, 1861. [Company F.] 2. George G. Huntt, of the District of Columbia, to be Second Lieutenant, vice Ingraham, promoted, to date from March 27, 1861. [Company I.]

3. Napoleon B. McLoughlin, of New York, to be Second Lieutenant, vice Long, promoted, to date from March 27, 1861. [Company H.]

4. Thomas H. McCormick, of Pennsylvania, to be Second Lieutenant, vice Burtwell, resigned, to date from March 27, 1861. [Company C.]

7. Clarence Mouck, of Pennsylvania, to be Second Lieutenant, vice Bayard, promoted, to date from March 27, 1861. [Company G.]

John A. Wilcox, of the District of Columbia, to be Second Lieutenant, vice Lomax, promoted, to date from March 28, 1861. [Company D.]

SECOND REGIMENT OF CAVALRY.

1. William O. Williams, of the District of Columbia, to be Second Lieutenant, vice Harrison, promoted, to date from March 23, 1861. [Company H.] 5. Charles H. Tompkins, of New York, to be Second Lieutenant, vice Cunningham, resigned, to date from March 23, 1861. [Company D.]

1. William McLean, of New Jersey, to be Second Lieutenant, vice Major, resigned, to date from March 27, 1861. [Company K.]

6. Sullivan W. Burbank, of Kentucky, to be Second Lieutenant, vice Phifer, promoted, to date from March 27, 1861. [Company F.]

FIRST REGIMENT OF ARTILLERY.

6. Samuel S. Elder, of Ohio, to be Second Lieutenant, vice Childs, resigned, to date from March 23, 1861. [Company]

SECOND REGIMENT OF ARTILLERY.

4. Sergeant Charles H. Peirce, of Company A, Corps of Engineers, to be Second Lieutenant, vice Dearing, resigned, to date from March 23, 1861. [Company F.]

FOURTH REGIMENT OF ARTILLERY.

Charles B. Throckmorton, of Maryland, to be Second Lieutenant, vice Montgomery, resigned, to date from March 16, 1861. [Company F.]

THIRD REGIMENT OF INFANTRY.

8. Andrew Sheridan, of New Jersey, to be Second Lieutenant, vice Bonneau, resigned, to date from March 23, 1861. [Company H.]

SIXTH REGIMENT OF INFANTRY.

3. Henry Hambright, of Pennsylvania, to be Second Lieutenant, vice Stoughton, resigned, to date from March 23, 1861. [Company A.]

Attached to the army, with the brevet rank of Second Lieutenant, in conformity with the 5th section of the act approved August 4, 1854, to take rank from September 19, 1860, the date of his examination.

First Sergeant Francis W. Seeley, of Light Company E, Third Artillery. [Promoted.]

III. TRANSFERRED, (2.)

Brevet Second Lieutenant Alanson M. Randol, of the Ordnance Department, to the Third Regiment of Artillery, January 14, 1861.

Brevet Second Lieutenant John M. Wilson, of the Ordnance Department, to the First Regiment of Artillery, January 14, 1861.

IV. CASUALTIES.
Resigned, (82.)

Colonel Henry Wilson, Seventh Infantry, February 25, 1861.
Colonel Samuel Cooper, Adjutant General, March 7, 1861.

Lieutenant Colonel William J. Hardee, First Cavalry, January 31, 1861. Major and Brevet Lieutenant Colonel William H. T. Walker, Tenth Infantry, December 20, 1860.

Brevet Major George Deas, Assistant Adjutant General, February 25, 1861. Major Earl Van Dorn, Second Cavalry, January 31, 1861.

Captain and Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Abraham C. Myers, Assistant Quartermaster, January 28, 1861.

Captain and Brevet Major Henry C. Wayne, Assistant Quartermaster, December 31, 1860.

Captain Lucius B. Northrop, First Dragoons, January 8, 1861.
Captain Robert P. Maclay, Eighth Infantry, December 31, 1860.
Captain Lafayette McLaws, Seventh Infantry, March 23, 1861.

Captain and Brevet Major Peter G. T. Beauregard, Corps of Engineers, February 20, 1861.

Brevet Captain David R. Jones, Assistant Adjutant General, February 15,

1861.

Captain Richard H. Anderson, Second Dragoons, March 3, 1861.
Captain William M. Gardner, Second Infantry, January 19, 1861.
Captain Barnard E. Bee, Tenth Infantry, March 3, 1861.
Captain William D. De Saussure, First Cavalry, March 1, 1861-
Captain William R. Bradfute, Second Cavalry, March 21, 1861.
Captain Crawford Fletcher, Ninth Infantry, March 1, 1861.
Captain John Dunovant, Tenth Infantry, December 29, 1860.
Captain Josiah Gorgas, Ordnance Department, April 3, 1861.
Captain Nathan G. Evans, Second Cavalry, February 27, 1861.

Brevet Captain John Withers, Assistant Adjutant General, and First Lieutenant Fourth Infantry, March 1, 1861.

Captain Martin L. Smith, Corps of Topographical Engineers, April 1, 1861. Captain Alfred Cumming, Tenth Infantry, January 19, 1861.

Captain George W. Lay, Sixth Infantry, Aid-de-Camp and ex officio Lieutenant Colonel, March 2, 1861.

Captain John W. Frazer, Ninth Infantry, March 15, 1861.
Captain William D. Smith, Second Dragoons, January 28, 1861.

Captain William H. C. Whiting, Corps of Engineers, February 20, 1861.
First Lieutenant William G. Gill, Fourth Artillery, February 4, 1861.
First Lieutenant Ambrose P. Hill, First Artillery, March 1, 1861.
First Lieutenant Caleb Huse, First Artillery, February 25, 1861.
First Lieutenant Henry B. Kelly, Tenth Infantry, February 27, 1861.
First Lieutenant George W. Carr, Ninth Infantry, February 20, 1861.
First Lieutenant Alfred Iverson, jr., First Cavalry, March 21, 1861.
First Lieutenant Thomas G. Williams, First Infantry, March 15, 1861.
First Lieutenant John H. Forney, Tenth Infantry, January 23, 1861.
First Lieutenant Robert G. Cole, Eighth Infantry, January 28, 1861.
First Lieutenant Lawrence W. O'Bannon, Third Infantry, March 31, 1861.
First Lieutenant Philip Stockton, First Cavalry, February 27, 1861.
First Lieutenant John T. Shaaff, Second Cavalry, February 22, 1861.
First Lieutenant Joshua W. Sill, Ordnance Department, January 25, 1861.
First Lieutenant Stephen D. Lee, Fourth Artillery, February 20, 1861.
First Lieutenant James L. White, Third Artillery, March 3, 1861.

First Lieutenant William R. Boggs, Ordnance Department, February 1, 1861.
First Lieutenant Edward F. Bagley, Fourth Artillery, March 1, 1861.
First Lieutenant Edwin J. Harvie, Ninth Infantry, March 15, 1861.
First Lieutenant George S. James, Fourth Artillery, February 1, 1861.
First Lieutenant William D. Pender, First Dragoons, March 21, 1861.
First Lieutenant Thomas M. Jones, Eighth Infantry, February 28, 1861..
First Lieutenant Charles D. Anderson, Fourth Artillery, April 1, 1861.
First Lieutenant Charles W. Phifer, Second Cavalry, April 1, 1861.
Second Lieutenant Richard V. Bonneau, Third Infantry, March 2, 1861.
Second Lieutenant Horace Randal, First Dragoons, February 27, 1861.
Second Lieutenant William Butler, Second Artillery, February 1, 1861.
Second Lieutenant St. Clair Dearing, Second Artillery, February 7, 1861.
Second Lieutenant Frederick L. Childs, First Artillery, March 4, 1861.
Second Lieutenant Joseph P. Jones, Second Artillery, January 28, 1861.
Second Lieutenant James P. Major, Second Cavalry, March 21, 1861.
Second Lieutenant Alexander B. Montgomery, Fourth Artillery, March 3,

1861.

Second Lieutenant George W. Holt, Third Infantry, February 28, 1861. Second Lieutenant Thomas J. Berry, Second Dragoons, January 28, 1861. Second Lieutenant Samuel W. Ferguson, First Dragoons, March 1, 1861. Second Lieutenant George A. Cunningham, Second Cavalry, February 27, 1861. Second Lieutenant James H. Hallonquist, Fourth Artillery, January 1, 1861. Second Lieutenant Edwin H. Stoughton, Sixth Infantry, March 4, 1861. Second Lieutenant John R. B. Burtwell, First Cavalry, March 21, 1861. Brevet Second Lieutenant Moses J. White, Ordnance Department, February 7, 1861.

Brevet Second Lieutenant William H. Echols, Corps of Topographical Engineers, March 21, 1861.

Brevet Second Lieutenant Samuel H. Lockett, Corps of Engineers, February 1, 1861.

Brevet Second Lieutenant Henry S. Pearce, First Dragoons, March 11, 1861. Brevet Second Lieutenant Benjamin F. Sloan, jr., Second Dragoons, March 2, 1861.

Brevet Second Lieutenant Wade H. Gibbes, Second Cavalry, January 1, 1861. Brevet Second Lieutenant Harold Borland, Fifth Infantry, March 31, 1861. Surgeon Samuel P. Moore, February 25, 1861.

Surgeon David C. De Leon, February 19, 1861.

Assistant Surgeon George K. Wood, January 1, 1861.

Assistant Surgeon William A. Carswell, March 25, 1861.

Assistant Surgeon James H. Berrien, March 17, 1861.

Paymaster Sackfield Maclin, March 1, 1861.

Military Storekeeper John M. Galt, Ordnance Department, February 28, 1861. Military Storekeeper, Theodore Lewis, Ordnance Department, February 18, 1861.

Commissions vacated under the 7th section of the Act of June 18, 1846, (2.) By First Lieutenant Asher R. Eddy, 1st Artillery, Assistant Quartermaster— his regimental commission, (only,) November 22, 1860.

By First Lieutenant Tredwell Moore, 2d Infantry, Assistant Quartermaster— his regimental commission, (only,) January 19, 1861.

Commission vacated by new appointment, (1.)

By Brigadier General Edwin V. Sumner, his commission as Colonel 1st Regiment of Cavalry, March 16, 1861.

Died, (5.)

Major Thomas P. Gwynne, Fifth Infantry, at Norfolk, Va., February 26, 1861.

Major John B. Scott, Third Artillery, at San Francisco, Cal., November 22, 1860.

Captain George McLane, Regiment of Mounted Riflemen, killed in action with the Navajo Indians, in the Navajo Country, N. M., October 13, 1860. First Lieutenant David Bell, First Cavalry at Fort Monroe, Va., December 2, 1860.

First Lieutenant Benjamin D. Forsythe, Fourth Infantry, at Port Jervis, N. Y., January 31, 1861.

Dismissed, (1.)

Brigadier and Brevet Major General David E. Twiggs, March 1, 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 birth place of the officer appointed, his age, and residence, when appointed, will, in every case, be promptly reported to the Adjutant General. VIII.-The Second Lieutenants appointed will immediately report, by letter, for orders, to the Headquarters of the Army in New York city.

BY ORDER:

L. THOMAS, Adjutant General.

General Orders,}

No.

WAR DEP'T, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE,
Washington, April 9, 1861.

I.—A military Department, to be taken from the Department of the East, and called the Department of Washington, is hereby constituted, to consist of the State of Maryland, and the District of Columbia according to its original boundary.

Brevet Colonel C. F. Smith, 10th Infantry, is assigned to the command of this Department according to his brevet rank. Headquarters at Washington City.

II. Captain Theodore Talbot, Assistant Adjutant General, is relieved from the operation of General Orders No. 7, of March 20, 1861, assigning him to duty in the District of Oregon, and will report for duty, without delay, at the headquarters of the Department of Washington.

BY ORDER:

L. THOMAS, Adjutant General.

General Orders,

No. 10.

WAR DEP'T, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, April 11, 1861. I.-Captain William B. Johns, 3d Infantry, having declined the command of his company, when ordered on a particular service, the President directs that he cease to be an officer of the Army from this date.

II.-1st. Lieutenant Abner Smead, 1st Artillery, having, when with his com

pany under critical circumstances, tendered his resignation in order to escape from duty therewith, the President directs that he cease to be an officer of the Army from this date.

BY ORDER:

L. THOMAS, Adjutant General.

WAR DEP'T, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE,

Washington, April 23, 1861..

First Lieutenant Charles H. Ogle, 1st Dragoons, having failed to render hjs accounts, as required by the act" concerning the disbursement of public money," approved January 31, 1823, the President directs that he be dismissed from the Army of the United States. He is accordingly hereby dropped from the Rolls of the Army.

BY ORDER:

L. THOMAS, Adjutant General.

General Orders,}

No.

WAR DEP'T, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE,

Washington, April 27, 1861.

1. The Military Department of Washington will include the District of Columbia, according to its original boundary, Fort Washington and the county adjacent, and the State of Maryland as far as Bladensburg, inclusive. Colonel J. K. F. Mansfield, Inspector General, is assigned to the command, Headquarters Washington City.

2. A new Military Department, to be called the Department of Annapolis, Headquarters at that city, will include the country for twenty miles on each side of the railroad from Annapolis to the city of Washington, as far as Bladensburg, Md. Brigadier General B. F. Butler, Massachusetts Volunteers, is assigned to the command.

3. A Third Department, called the Department of Pennsylvania, will include that State, the State of Delaware and all of Maryland not embraced in the foregoing Departments. Major General Patterson to command, Headquarters at Philadelphia, or any other point he may temporarily occupy.

4. Brevet Colonel C. F. Smith, having been relieved by Colonel Mansfield, will repair to Fort Columbus, N. Y., and assume the duties of Superintendent of the Recruiting Service to which he was assigned in Special Orders No. 80, of March 15. Major Heintzelman, on being relieved at Fort Columbus, will repair to this city and report for duty to the Department Commander.

5. Fort Adams, Rhode Island, is hereby placed temporarily under the control of the Secretary of the Navy, for the purposes of the Naval Academy now at Annapolis, Md.

The necessary transfer of property will be made by the Departments interested.

The President directs that all officers of the army, except those who have entered the service since the 1st instant, take and subscribe anew the oath of