B.F. BUTLER,

_Secretary of War ad interim_.

II. Pursuant to the above order, Surgeon-General Lawson will immediately

join the ex-President, and will accompany him as his medical attendant

to Wheeling, in the State of Virginia, and, at his discretion, to the

residence of the ex-President, at the Hermitage, near Nashville, in the

State of Tennessee.

III. Assistant Surgeon Reynolds will join the ex-President at Wheeling,

Va., and from that place, either alone or in conjunction with the

Surgeon-General, as the latter may direct, will proceed with the

ex-President to his residence in Tennessee.

IV. The officers above named, on the conclusion of the duties above

assigned to them, will repair to their respective stations.

By order of Alexander Macomb, Major-General Commanding in Chief:

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