Order Assigning Daniel Tyler to Middle Department1Jump to section
Ordered, that Brig. Gen. D. Tyler be assigned to duty in the Middle Department, as senior brigadier in the Middle Department, without regard to priority in date of commission.
A. LINCOLN,
President of the United States
Annotation
[1] OR, I, XXVII, III, 37. LINCOLN's order was issued by Major General Robert Schenck, Headquarters Eighth Army Corps, Baltimore, June 8, 1863, General Orders No. 37. Schenck's Special Orders No. 159, June 13, sent Brigadier General Daniel Tyler to Harper's Ferry and Martinsburg, to ``assume command of all forces, including brigade at Martinsburg, which can be sent to the support of Major-General Milroy, and cover the march of that general's forces to Harper's Ferry.''