GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 201. 
WAR DEPARTMENT, 
Adjutant General’s Office, 
Washington. May 21, 1864. 
Major General Irvin McDowell, U. S. Volunteers, is, by direction 
of the President, assigned to the command of the Department of the 
Pacific. Headquarters, San Francisco, California. 
By order of the Secretary of War: 
E. D. TOWNSEND, 
Assistant Adjutant General. 
Official : 
Assistant Adjutant General.