GENERAL ORDERS. 
No. 280. 
WAll DEPARTMENT, 
ADJUTANT GENEHAI/S OFFICE, 
Washington. November 11, 18(14. 
1.. Brigadier-General H. W. Wessells, U. S. Volunteers, is as- 
signed to duty, at Washington, as Inspector and Commissary Gen- 
eral of Prisoners for the section of country east of the Mississippi 
river. He will immediately relieve Brevet Brigadier-General Hoff- 
man, in charge of the office in Washington and of the duties 
connected with the section of country to which he is assigned. 
11.. Brigadier-General William Hoffman is assigned as 
Inspector and Commissary General of Prisoners for the region west 
of the Mississippi, until further orders. 
By order of the Secretary of War: 
E. T). TOWNSEND, 
Assistant Adjutant General. 
Official : 
Assistant Adjutant General.