Until further orders from the President, you will assign no officer to the permanent command of the Military Division of the Missouri.
Respectfully yours, ANDREW JOHNSON.
GENERAL U.S.GRANT, Commanding Armies of The United States, Washington, D.C.
Major-General P.H.Sheridan, the senior officer in the Military Division of the Missouri, will temporarily perform the duties of commander of the Military Division of the Missouri in addition to his duties of department commander.

By command of General Grant: E.D.TOWNSEND, Assistant Adjutant-General.
This order, if carried into effect, would have grouped in Washington: 1.

The President, constitutional Commander-in-Chief.
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The Secretary of War, congressional Commander-in-Chief.
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The General of the Armies of the United States.
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