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Co. C-Captain, John W. Lowber; 1st Lieutenant, Ross Neely; 2d Lieutenant, Marshall C. Wood.

Co. D-Captain, Charles J. Peshall; 1st Lieutenant, John Reddick; 2d Lieutenant, James Lewis.

Co. E-Captain, Isaac O. Leger; 1st Lieutenant, Ephraim Beasly; 2d Lieutenant, Samuel Mitchell.

Co. F-Captain, William Anderson; 1st Lieutenant, Whitfield N. Alley; 2d Lieutenant, John A. Souther.

Co. G-Captain, Edmond L. Wells; 1st Lieutenant, John Miller.

Co. H-Captain, Tilmon Sherley; 1st Lieutenant, Absalom A. Lasater; 2d Lieutenant, John Coker.

Co. I-Captain, David Glenn; 1st Lieutenant, Henry T. Jones; 2d Lieutenant, Samuel Gerard.

Co. K-Captain, Thomas F. Scott; 1st Lieutenant, George W. Hobbs; 2d Lieutenant, James D. Smith.

On the 2d of March the regiment left camp for Nashville, whence it proceeded to Tullahoma. Here it remained, perfecting itself in drill, until the 17th of June, when it was divided into small detachments, and distributed along the line of the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad. It was engaged in this duty until September 4th, when it was mustered out of the service, at Murfreesboro. On the 17th it arrived at Springfield, where it was paid off and discharged.

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remains untenanted. Still the sentry challenges the visitor who, prompted by curiosity, approaches that seat of former splendor and fashionable and showy resort; but its former occupant comes not. At last the public mind begins to settle down in the belief that he will not come, and that, after all, the 'Sucker General,' and, as remarked by a member of the New Orleans bar in our hearing, 'respectable member of the Illinois Legislature,' is the permanent commander of the Department of the Gulf.

"Perhaps, under all the circumstances, this delay, this blasted expectation, has been of great advantage to General Hurlbut.

"Without the annoyance of subservient and deceitful rebels, who swarm all over this city-without being overwhelmed with foolish and unmeaning sycophancy and ceremony-without being feasted and flattered by designing financial schemers, brainless demagogues, and fashionable fools, he has been enabled to quietly set himself down to the task of unraveling the endless complications of this department, and comprehending fully and perfectly the questions which have been so much discussed here and at Washington. The keen perceptive faculties of the General, with his long legal and military training, and his perfect knowledge of Southern habits, manners, and modes of thought, have rendered the task more easy than to a Northern man; and it is simple justice to him to say, that he is now 'master of the situation.' No man, perhaps, in the United States so fully understands the social, political and labor questions of this department, as does General Hurlbut. Of this fact the whole population here have at last become conscious."

He certainly displayed a rare executive ability, and his administration was eminently wise and efficient.

The same correspondent thus refers to another gallant Illinois officer of whom mention has been made:

"Brigadier-General Mason Brayman, lately in command at Natchez and Vidalia, has been ordered to this city, and made President of a commission to examine and report on the vast accumulation of claims here since the coming of Major-General Butler. It is a post of great responsibility, and the General is in good health and hard at work. His command at Natchez was eminently successful and satisfactory to Generals Canby and Dana; but being the subordinate