GENERAL ORDERS, i WAR DEPARTMENT,

s. Adjutant General’s Office,

No. 220. ) Washington, July 16, 1863.

By direction of the President of the United States, the following officers are retired from active service, and their names will be entered on the retired list of officers of the grade to which they now respect¬ ively belong, in accordance with section 12, act approved July 17, 1862; this order to take effect August 1, 1863:

Major General John E. Wool.

Brigadier General William S. Harney.

Brevet Brigadier General Harvey Brown, Colonel 5th Artillery.

Colonel Justin Dimmick, 1st Artillery.

Colonel Charles S. Merchant, 4th Artillery.

Lieutenant Colonel Martin Burke, 3d Artillery.

By order of the Secretary of War:

E. D. TOWNSEND, Assistant Adjutant General.