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Par. 2. Colonel E. D. Baker, 4th Illinois regiment, directed to repair to Washington, to effect such arrangements, under the sanction of the War Department, as may be found practicable for supplying his regiment with clothing.

SPECIAL ORDERS No. 180.-November 25, 1846.

Par. 1. Leave of absence to a volunteer commissary, for benefit of his health.

Par. 2. Discharges seven volunteer officers on tender of their resignations.

Par. 3. Leave of absence, for benefit of health, to a volunteer officer.

Par. 4. Directions for mustering the regiment of Tennessee cavalry.

SPECIAL ORDERS No. 181.-November 26, 1846.

Par. 1. Discharges a volunteer officer on tender of his resigna

tion.

Par. 2. Leave of absence to an officer 2d dragoons, for benefit of his health.

Par. 3. Leave of absence to an officer 7th infantry.

Par. 4. Restores a soldier, charged with desertion, to duty, without trial.

Par. 5. A medical officer to proceed to New Orleans to purchase such medical supplies as may be deemed necessary by the medical director.

Par. 6. Assigns medical officers to duty.

Par. 7. Assigns a medical officer to duty.

Par. 8. Discharges an acting assistant surgeon.

SPECIAL ORDERS No. 182.-November 27, 1846.

Par. 1. Discharges a volunteer officer on tender of his resigna

tion.

Par. 2. A board of officers to examine hospital furniture.

SPECIAL ORDERS No. 183.-November 28, 1846.

Par. 1. Assembles a medical board for the examination of Assistant Surgeon Porter for promotion.

Par. 2. Captain Taylor's battery to march for Saltillo. The captain to report to General Worth. All convalescents belonging to the 2d division, who can march or go in the wagons, to proceed to Saltillo.

Par. 3. Orders an officer to join his regiment.

Par. 4. Orders officers to join their proper regiments.

Par. 5. Discharges three volunteer officers who tendered their resignations on account of ill health.

Par. 6. Leave of absence to three volunteer officers.

Par. 7. Orders an officer to report to General Patterson for duty in the subsistence department.

SPECIAL ORDERS No. 184.-November 29, 1846.

Par. 1. Orders a board of officers to examine into the circumstances of the murder of a Mexican citizen.

Par. 2. Leave of absence to two volunteer officers.

SPECIAL ORDERS No. 185.-November 30, 1846.

Par. 1. Dissolves a board of officers.

Par. 2. Leave of absence to a volunteer officer.

Par. 3. Assigns a medical officer to duty.

Par 4. Discharges a volunteer officer on tender of his resignation.

Par. 5. Orders an officer to join his proper company.

SPECIAL ORDERS No. 186.-December 2, 1846.

Par. 1. Assigns Colonel Whistler to command of a brigade. Par. 2. Company F 1st dragoons to proceed to Saltillo, and be reported to General Worth.

SPECIAL ORDERS No. 187.-December 4, 1846.

Leave of absence to an officer Tennessee volunteers, on account of wounds.

SPECIAL ORDERS No. 188.-December 5, 1846.

The public property condemned by a board of officers to be disposed of by the medical director.

SPECIAL ORDERS No. 189. Copied in full-series F.
SPECIAL ORDERS No. 190.-December 9, 1846.

Par. 1. Discharges a volunteer officer.
Par. 2. Assigns medical officers to duty.

Par. 3. Discharges an acting assistant surgeon.
Par. 4. Remits part of the sentence of a soldier.
Par. 5. Transfers soldiers.

Par. 6. Change of hospital stewards.

SPECIAL ORDERS No. 191.-December 10, 1846.

Par. 1. Leave of absence to volunteer commissary for benefit of 'his health.

Par. 2. An officer of the Maryland and District of Columbia volunteers to report for duty with the pioneers.

SPECIAL ORDERS No. 192.-December 11, 1846.

Par. 1. Leave of absence, for remainder of his term of service, to an officer of Tennessee volunteers, disabled by a wound.

Par. 2. An officer assigned to superintend the repairs, &c., of the citadel.

Par. 3. Transfers soldiers.

SPECIAL ORDERS No. 193.-December 12, 1846.

Par. 1. An officer ordered to join his company.

Par. 2. Orders officers to join their companies.

Par. 3. Discharges two soldiers.

Par. 4. An officer assigned to charge of subsistence.

Par. 5. Discharges an officer Tennessee volunteers on tender of his resignation.

Par. 6. Dishonorably discharges a private of volunteers.
Par. 7. Dishonorably discharges a private of volunteers.

SPECIAL ORDERS No. 194.-December 13, 1846.

Par. 1. Assigns a medical officer to duty.

Par. 2. Discharges an officer Tennessee volunteers on tender of his resignation.

Par. 3. Major Gaines of the Kentucky cavalry to march with three companies of his command to Saltillo, and report to General Worth.

Par. 4. Discharges an officer Ohio volunteers on tender of his resignation, on account of sickness.

SPECIAL ORDERS No. 195.- December 14, 1846..

Leave of absence to a volunteer officer.

SPECIAL ORDERS No. 196.-December 20, 1846.

Par. 1. Leave of absence to an officer 2d artillery for benefit of health.

Par. 2. Discharges two volunteer officers on tender of their resignations, on account of sickness.

SPECIAL ORDERS No. 197.- December 22, 1846.

Relieves an acting assistant surgeon, and discharges him.

SPECIAL ORDERS No. 138.-December 26, 1846-Montemorelos.
Par. 1. Detachment of recruits for 3d infantry to remain at
Monterey until further orders.

Par. 2. Assignment of medical officers to duty.

Par. 3. Orders Brevet Major Hawkins on recruiting service at New York.

Par. 4. Discharges an officer Tennessee volunteers on tender of resignation.

Par. 5. Orders a surgeon to accompany the inspector general to Austin, Texas, for duty connected with the muster of a regiment of volunteer horse. Afterwards he is permitted to repair to Washton on account of health.

SPECIAL ORDERS No. 199.-December 199, 1846-Villa Gran.

Par. 1. For benefit of their health, leave of absence to two regular and one volunteer officers.

Par. 2. Leave of absence to volunteer assistant quartermaster for benefit of health.

ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE,

R. JONES, Adjutant General.

February 6, 1847.

RELATIVE TO TRANSPORTATION.

Memoranda for the chiefs of the general staff of the army at Washington.

An army of some twenty odd thousand men, regulars and volunteers, including the troops already in Texas, is about to be directed against Mexico, in several columns.

For the numbers of troops yet to be sent into Texas, the rendezvous or points of departure, and the routes of march thither, each chief of the general staff will obtain the information needful to his particular department from the Secretary of War's calls upon the governors of several States, and from the adjutant general.

Arms, accoutrements, ammunition, and camp equipage must be thrown in advance upon the several rendezvous or points of departure, unless depots or arsenals should be in the routes which may be given to volunteers. It is not foreseen that guns or field artillery will be given to any body of volunteers other than a detachment which will march under Colonel Kearny, from Fort Leavenworth. (See instructions on the subject given to that officer.)

Subsistence will also be thrown in advance upon the several rendezvous given, and as far as practicable on the several routes thence to be given to both regulars and volunteers. Hard bread and bacon (side pieces or middlings) are suggested and recommended for marches, both on account of health and comparative lightness of transportation. On many of the routes it is supposed beef cattle. be obtained in tolerable abundance.

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With the means of transportation by water and land, according to the several routes to be given to the troops-and, on land, whether wagons or pack mules, of both wheels and packs-the quartermaster general will charge himself at once, and as fast as the necessary data can be settled or known. It may, however, be now assumed by him, and the two other chiefs of staff in question, that Cincinnati, and Newport (Kentucky;) Madison or Jefferson, Indiana; Louisville and Smithland, Kentucky; Quincy or Alton, Illinois; Memphis and Nashville, Tennessee; Washington or Fulton, on the Red river, and Natchez, Mississippi, will be appointed as places of rendezvous for considerable bodies of volunteers, about to be called for by the War Department. For marches by land, a projet for the means of transportation, by company, battalion, or regiment, according to route, is requested, as a general plan. The means of transportation on and beyond the Rio Grande, using for the latter purpose those which may accompany the troops, will require a particular study; but boats for transporting supplies on that river should be early provided-assuming the depth of water to a certain height (up the river) at three or three and a half feet, and to another distance, higher up, at two and a half feet. WINFIELD SCOTT.

HEAD-QUARTERS OF THE ARMY,
May 15, 1846.

MAY 18, 1846.

It is further desirable that the surgeon general should take early measures to throw necessary supplies from his department upon the places of rendezvous (as fast as they can be ascertained, as above) for the different bodies of volunteers and regulars to be put in route for the Rio Grande, and for the augmented forces about to be assembled on that river.

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[No. 51.]

Surgeon General.

WINFIELD SCOTT.

HEAD-QUARTERS, ARMY OF OCCUPATION,
Matamoras, June 10, 1846.

SIR: I beg leave earnestly to invite the attention of the department to the following points:

1st. The great influx of volunteers at Point Isabel: five regiments certainly from Louisiana, numbering say 3,600 men; tworegiments or battalions from Louisville and St. Louis, numbering say 1,200 more; several companies from Alabama, and I know not how many from Texas, the latter now beginning to arrive. The volunteer troops now under my orders amount to nearly 6,000 men.. How far they may be increased, without previous notification to me, it is impossible to tell.

2d. The entire want of the proper kind of transportation to push my operations up the river. The boats on which I depended for this service were found to be nearly destroyed by worms, and entirely unfit for the navigation of the river. At my instance, Major Thomas, on the 18th of May, required from Lieutenant Colonel Hunt a boat of the proper description, and followed it up in a few days by a requisition for another. At the last dates from New Orleans no boat had been procured. Captain Sanders, of the engineers, was despatched by me to New Orleans to assist in procuring. suitable boats, but I have yet received no report from him.

As I have previously reported, my operations are completely paralyzed by the want of suitable steamboats to navigate the Rio Grande. Since the 18th of May the army has lain in camp nearthis place, continually receiving heavy reinforcements of men, but no facility for water transport, without which additional numbers: are but an embarrassment.

I desire to place myself right in this matter, and to let the department see that the inactivity of the army results from no neglect of mine. I must express my astonishment that such large reinforce

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