SPECIAL ORDERS No. 92.
HDQRS. SIXTEENTH ARMY CORPS,
Montgomery, Ala., June 22, 1865.
IV. Brig. Gen. James I. Gilbert, U.S. Volunteers, under
authority of General Orders, No. 106, Adjutant-General's Office, Washington,
D.C., June 2, 1865, is relieved from duty with the Second Brigade, Second
Division, Sixteenth Army Corps, and will report to Maj. Gen. E. R. S. Canby,
commanding Department of the Gulf, at New Orleans, La., for orders.
By command of Maj. Gen. A. J. Smith:
J. HOUGH,
Lieutenant-Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.
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SPECIAL ORDERS No. 172.
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF,
New Orleans, La., June 28, 1865.
8. In compliance with General Orders, No. 106, from War
Department, Adjutant-General's Office, Brig. Gen. J. I. Gilbert, U.S.
Volunteers, is hereby relieved from further duty in this department and will
proceed without delay to his place of residence, and from there report by letter
to the Adjutant-General of the Army.
By order of Maj. Gen. E. R. S. Canby:
J. SCHUYLER CROSBY,
Bvt. Lieut. Col., Aide-de-Camp, and Actg. Asst. Adjt. Gen.
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GENERAL ORDERS No. 11.
HDQRS. SECOND BRIG., SECOND DIV.,
SIXTEENTH ARMY CORPS,
Montgomery, Ala., June 23, 1865.
Officers and soldiers of the Second Brigade, the day of our
separation has at length arrived. In anticipation of orders to proceed to my
home in Iowa by Special Orders, No. 92, current series, Sixteenth Army Corps
headquarters, I am relieved from duty with you and ordered to report to General
Canby. After an association with many of you for nearly three long years, in
camp and field, under those peculiarly trying circumstances which so generally
bind heart to heart in friendship and in sympathy, a separation comes not
without sadness. My brave officers and men, I shall never cease to remember how
patiently you have endured all the hardships, privations, and exposures of the
soldier on active duty, how heroically you have fought the enemy of our country
upon many stubbornly contested fields, how uniformly you have fought to conquer.
Such battle-fields as Prairie Grove, Little Rock, Fort De Russy, Pleasant Hill,
Yellow Bayou, Tupelo, Oldtown Creek, Nashville, and Blakely, fought and bravely
fought, won and nobly won, will ever be monuments in history which shall tell to
your children's children of your undaunted courage, your prowess in arms, your
devotion to your country's cause. You have helped to bear the old flag on, on,
until its proud folds once more kiss every breeze from the Lakes to the Gulf.
Now, at last, no enemy is in arms, and the bright beams of peace have broken
through the dark clouds of war. You will follow me, soon, to your happy friends
and homes, to pursue again your former civil avocations. Be as good citizens as
you have been soldiers. You will defend your country no longer by the bullet,
but by the ballot. Stand by her cause always. But, alas! I cannot even bid
good-bye to all of my brigade, for not a few of our comrades have paid the
highest tribute of the patriot to his country. Let us fail not to cherish their
memories as brothers, extend to their friends a soldier's sympathy, and drop for
them a soldier's tear. Officers and soldiers, may Heaven's blessings rest upon
you all. Farewell.
JAMES I. GILBERT,
Brigadier-General, U. S. Volunteers.
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