WAR DEPARTMENT, 
ADJUTANT GENERAL’S OFFICE, 
Washington, November 28, 1864. 
GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 288. 
I...The Department of Mississippi will comprise the State of 
Mississippi and that part of Tennessee west of the Tennessee River. 
IE...Major-General N. J. T. Dana, U. S. Volunteers, is assigned by 
the President, to the command of the Department of Mississippi. 
By order of the Secretary of War : 
E. D. TOWNSEND, 
Assistant Adjutant General. 
Official : 
Assistant Adjutant General.