Jan. 14.-William A. Carpenter, Charles N. Case, Jr., and George H. Read, and waiting orders. Jun. 16.-J. Bayard Redfield, and waiting orders. Jan. 17.-James W. Hanson and Thaddeus Bell, and waiting orders. Jan. 19.—Charles P. Thompson, L. G. Morrow, and Charles A. McDaniel, and waiting orders. Jan. 20.-H. Trumbull Stancliff and Lewis F. Whitin, and waiting orders. Jan. 4.-Acting Assistant Paymaster G. W. Morton, ordered to the Juniata. Acting Assistant Paymaster C. H. Boardman, ordered to the Fah-Kee. Acting Assistant Paymaster Thomas A. Swords, ordered to the Niphon. Jan. 5.-Acting Assistant Paymaster J. II. Bulkley, ordered to the Vicksburg. Jan. 6.-Acting Assistant Paymaster Martin Duane, detached from the Augusta, on completion of transfer, and ordered to settle his accounts. Jan. 10.-Acting Assistant Paymaster George W. McLane, ordered to the Magnolia. Acting Assistant Paymaster L. G. Billings, ordered to the A. D. Vance. Jan. 11.—Acting Assistant Paymaster Franklin Miller, ordered to the A. D. Vance. Acting Assistant Paymaster L. G. Billings, orders to the A. D. Vance revoked, and ordered to settle his accounts. Jan. 14.-Acting Assistant Paymaster Charles O. Hodgdon, ordered to the Mississippi Squadron. Acting Assistant Paymaster J. S. Giraud, ordered to instruction at New York. Acting Assistant Paymaster H. D. Kimberly, order dismissing him revoked, and he will return to duty. Jan. 16.-Acting Assistant Paymaster T. Baker, ordered to the Maratanza. Jun. 19.-Acting Assistant Paymaster John McMahon, detached from the Napa, on the reporting of his relief, and waiting orders. Acting Assistant Paymaster E. M. Hart, ordered to the St. Mary's. Acting Assistant Paymaster H. T. B. Harris, orders to the Naubuc revoked, and ordered to the Napa. Jan. 20.-Acting Assistant Paymaster C. P. Thompson, ordered to report to the Department for special duty. Acting Assistant Paymaster Charles H. Hill, detached from the Saco, and ordered to settle his accounts. Jan. 21.-Acting Assistant Paymaster Charles C. Ward, ordered to the Flambeau. Acting Assistant Paymaster J. W. Holmes, detached from the Dumbarton, on the reporting of his relief, and ordered to settle his accounts. Acting Assistant Paymaster F. V. D. Horton, detached from the Flambeau, on the reporting of his relief, and ordered to settle his accounts. Acting Assistant Paymaster Rufus McConnell, ordered to instruction at New York. Acting Assistant Paymaster C. M. Case, Jr., ordered to the Casco. Acting Assistant Paymaster Charles W. Crary, ordered to the Dumbarton. Jan. 23.-Acting Assistant Paymaster James F. Reeves, ordered to the Mississippi Squadron. Jan. 24.-Acting Assistant Paymaster S. Thomas, Jr., ordered to the Harvest Moon. Acting Assistant Paymaster R. B. Rodney, detached from the Massachusetts, on the reporting of his relief, and ordered to settle his accounts. Acting Assistant Paymaster Lawson E. Rice, detached from the Harvest Moon, on the reporting of his relief, and ordered to the Massachusetts. Acting Assistant Paymaster A. H. Humphrey, ordered to the Annie. Acting Assistant Paymaster J. S. Giraud, ordered to the Gettysburg. Jan. 28.-Acting Assistant Paymaster George H. Read, ordered to the Thomas Freeborn. Acting Assistant Paymaster Thaddeus Bell, ordered to the Naubuc. Acting Assistant Paymaster A. D. Bache, ordered to the Chenango. Acting Assistant Paymaster Levi F. Whitin, ordered to instruction at New York. Acting Assistant Paymaster J. B. Redfield, ordered to the Kenwood. Acting Assistant Paymaster II. B. Wetherill, detached from the Kenwood, and ordered to settle his accounts. Promoted for Good Conduct, &c. Jan. 1.-Acting Ensigns Thomas Stothard and Henry Welton, to Acting Mas ters. Jun. 6.—Acting Ensign George W. Wood, to Acting Master. Jun. 9.-Acting Ensigns D. Rodney Brown and Henry Pease, Jr., to Acting Masters. Acting Ensign James M. Alden, to Acting Master (for duty on the staff of Rear-Admiral Porter). Jan. 14.-Acting Ensign George W. Adams, Jr., to be Acting Master. Jan. 16.-Acting Ensign Abraham Rich, to be Acting Master. Resigned. Jan. 3.-Acting Assistant Surgeon William Clendaniel; Acting Third Assistant Engineer Joseph P. Phillips. Jan. 4.-Acting Volunteer Lieutenant Quincy A. Hooper; Acting Third Assistant Engineers Michael Doyle and Frank McCartley; Acting Ensign Marcus Baird. Jun. 5.-Acting Assistant Paymaster T. E. Smith (on the reporting of his relief). Jun. 6.-Acting Master David H. Sumner. Jan. 10.-Acting Master R. M. Cornell; Acting Assistant Paymaster W. J. Coit (on the reporting of his relief). Jan. 11.-Acting Ensign G. W. Hammond. Acting Third Assistant Engineer Edward W. Maples. Jan. 13.-Acting Assistant Paymaster S. T. Savage (on the transfer of his accounts to his successor). Jan. 14.-Acting Assistant Paymaster W. W. Bassett. Jan. 17.-Acting Master and Pilot William Reed: Acting Ensign Thomas S. Russell; Acting Assistant Paymaster Charles H. Noyes. Jan. 18.-Acting Assistant Surgeon William H. Taggert. Jan. 19.-Acting Assistant Paymaster James Garnett (to take effect on the reporting of his relief). Jan. 20.-Acting Ensign William Symonds; Acting Assistant Surgeon J. F. A. Adams; Acting Assistant Surgeon Franklin W. Brigham. Jan. 23.-Acting Ensign John D. Barclay. Jan. 28.-Acting Assistant Paymaster D. A. Dickinson (to take effect on the reporting of his relief); Acting Assistant Surgeon John R. Richardson. Jan. 30.-Acting Assistant Paymaster H. T. Mansfield. Jan. 4.-Acting Master's Mate Thomas Topliffe. Revoked. Jan. 10.-Acting Ensign Milton Griffiths. Jan. 14.-Acting Ensign Horace T. Draper. Jan. 16.-Acting Ensign George Gairy. Jan. 19.-Acting Ensign Benjamin F. Macintire. Jan. 25.-Acting Ensigns Harrison B. Cleaves and Frank Watson. Jan. 31.-Acting Ensign and Pilot Benjamin F. Ricketson. Jan. 4.-Acting Master's Mate Henry E. Holbrook. Dismissed. Jan. 7.-Acting Ensign James R. Smith. Jan. 17.-Acting Assistant Paymaster A. B. Thornton, Jan. 6.-Acting Master's Mate Dennis Carroll. Jan. 28.-Acting Master's Mate Thomas H. Lawrence. Engraved for the "United States Service Magazine," from a complete and accurate map just prepared by the U. 8. Coast Survey, and kindly furnished for the purpose. THE UNITED STATES SERVICE MAGAZINE. VOL. III-APRIL, 1865.-NO. IV. SHERMAN'S ATLANTA CAMPAIGN. BY COLONEL S. M. BOWMAN. THE military situation of the United States on the opening of spring, 1864, indicated preparation for campaigns and operations heretofore unexampled during the progress of the war. For weeks previous to the month of May, all the railways and water-courses in the loyal States were crowded with soldiers returning to their respective regiments, and with new recruits hastening to the front, to bear a hand in the impending conflict. Transports laden with enormous quantities of ordnance stores and supplies, for a while literally monopolized all the thoroughfares of trade and travel, and evidently the then coming military operations were designed to test the power and resources of the Confederacy to the utmost extent. Grant had been made lieutenant-general, and put in command of all the armies of the United States. Never before in America had a general been put in command of armies so large, and operating over territory of such vast extent. His armies dotted the continent from the Potomac to the Rio Grande, and thence around and along the sea-coast, and back to the Chesapeake. His lines might have been traced by the smoke of camp-fires along the rivers, through the valleys, on the hill-tops, over the mountains, across the plains, and around the coast, throughout a zigzag journey of five thousand miles. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1865, by C. B. RICHARDSON, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York. VOL. III-20 |