The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-08-11

WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.-The following
general order has been issued:
WAR Dept, ADJ'r GENERALS
OFFICE, WAsAIN GToN, Aug 6, 1866.
GENERAL ORDER No. 59.1
By authority of the President, the
present arrangement of military divis-
ions and departments are hereby dis
continued, and the following divisions
and commands substituted:
First-Departmento of the East, head
quarters at Philadelphia, Maj. Gen,
brace the New England States, New
York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Second-Department of the Lakes,
headquarters at Detroit, Michigan
Brigadier and Brevet Major General
Joseph Hooker to command, will en-
brace the States of Ohio, Michigan, In
diana, Illinois and Wisconsin.
Third-Department of the Potomac,
headquarters at Richmond, Va; Major
General John M. Schofield to command
will embrace the States of Virginia and
West Virginia.
FourthSDepartmen of the South,
headquarters at Charleston, s. c.; Ma
jor General Daniel E. Sickles to COM
mand, will embrace the States of North
Carolina aud South Carolina.
Fifth-Department of the Tennessee,
headquarters at Nashville, Tenn; Ma
Jor General George II. Thomas to COM
mand, will embrace the States of Ken
lucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama and
Mississippi.
Sixth-Department of the Gulf,
headquarters at New Orleans; Major
General Phil. 81. Sheridan to command,
will embrace the States of Florida,
Louisiana and Texas.
Seventh-Departmen of the Arkan-
sas, headquarters at Little Rock, Ar
kansas, Brigadier and Brevet Major
General o. G. Ord to command, will
embrace the State of Arkansas and In
dian Territory, west.
Eighth-Departmen of the Missouri,
headquarters at Leavenworth, Kansas,
Major General Winfield s. Hancock to
command, with the same boundaries as
now constituted, except such as may
be detached to form new department
to be created.
Ninth-Department of the Platte,
headquarters at Omaha, Nebraska,
Brigadier General st. George McCook
to command, with the same boundaries
as now, exceptsuch as may be detached
to form a new Department to be cre-
ated.
Tenth-Departmen of California,
headquarters at San Francisco, Cali
fornia, Major General Irwin Mcdowell
to command. the same as now conSti-
tuted.
Eleventh Department of Columbia,
headquarters at Portland, Oregon,
Brigadier General and Brevet Major
General John Pope to command, same
as now constituted.
Twelfth-Brigadiera and Brevet Major
General Alfred Terry will report to
Lieutenant General Sherman, to take
command of a Department to be created
out of the Departments of the Missouri
and the Platte, according to his judg-
ment, subject to the approval of the
Secretary of War;.
Thirteenth-Lieut. Gen. VIM. T. Sher-
man is assigned to the general COM
mand of the Departments of the Arkan-
sas, the Missouri, the Platte, and the
new department to be created. The
style of Lieut.. Gen. Sherman's COM
mand will be Military Division of the
Missouri, headquarters at st. Louis.
Fourteenth-TheD Department of Cali
fornia and the Columbia will constitute
Military Division under General
Henry w. Halleck, to be called the
Military Division of the Pacific, head
quarters at San Francisco, California.
Fifteenth-The Department of WASH
ington, with its present limits, and the
States of Delaware and Maryland,
headquarters at Washington, Brigadier
and BreVet Maj. General Edw. r. s.
Candy, to command.
By order of the President of the
United States. (Signedl
E. D. TOWNSEND,
Acting Adjutant General.