U. S. Army 1864 Signal Corps Transfers

General Orders No. 22, War Department, Adjutant General's Office, Washington, January 14, 1864. Tbe following named enlisted men, having passed the examination prescribed in paragraph 4 of General Orders, No. 106, War Department, Adjutant General's Office, dated April 23, 1863, are, in accordance with authority granted in paragraph 11 of same order, transferred to the Signal Corps, U. S. Army, and will be dropped from the rolls of their respective Regiments, and will report, without arms and with descriptive lists, to the Commanding Officer, Signal Detachment, Department of the Cumberland, Chattanooga, Tennessee.

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Names in this online transcription include Adams, Alms, Ashen, Berrick, Biederman, Billings, Black, Bolton, Boxler, Boyden, Breeze, Brewster, Burchinell, Burr, Butler, Butterfield, Button, Campbell, Carroll, Case, Casserleigh, Chase, Colwell, Corn, Cowell, Cravey, Croy, Culver, Darling, Davis, DeBolt, Decker, Deming, Denig, Dicious, Dickie, Dister, Dodge, Doepke, Dove, Drake, Drummond, Early, Finley, Frankenburg, Galloway, Giltner, Girt, Grady, Graham, Greiner, Griffith, Grover, Gwynne, Ham, Handig, Harris, Harrison, Haskell, Hastings, Hawk, Hays, Henry, Hershey, Hinds, Holbrook, Holmes, Hooker, Hoover, Hughs, Hunnold, Hunt, Johnson, Jones, Keeler, Kelley, Kilburn, Kimball, Lamb, Lawson, Le Page, Leigh, Lowe, Maffit, Magoon, Marshall, Mathes, Mathias, Matteson, McCrassan, McFarren, McHenry, McLeod, McMahon, McNames, Metzgar, Miller, Milliken, Monier, Moore, Morgan, Morris, Morrough, Mowery, Mufford, Murry, Newman, Orvis, Pace, Packer, Parker, Parmer, Parsons, Paton, Patterson, Paul, Pendleton, Phillips, Poagne, Poston, Prattle, Reed, Reid, Richards, Richardson, Roney, Ross, Rowles, Rush, Russell, Sayler, Schock, Schwenck, Sharp, Shaul, Shaver, Sheffer, Shields, Shrewsbury, Sisson, Skyles, Smith, Spigol, Stains, Steinhagen, Stewart, Stilz, Story, Thom, Unkefer, Van Achey, Vincent, Vorhis, Waldrip, Walker, West, Wilgus, Wilson, Wilt, Young, Zecher, Zimmerman.

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