MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.
First Surgeon S. Mulford, resigned.
First Assistant Surgeon D’Estaing Dickinson, promoted to full Surgeon.
Second Assistant Surgeon Richard Curran, promoted to First Assistant Surgeon.
Duncan McLachlen appointed Second Assistant Surgeon.
Edmund De Graff appointed Hospital Steward.
CHAPTER XXIX.
Another Advance.—The Army stalled in mud.—Removal of General Burnside.—General Hooker succeeds him.—Character of the two men.—General Franklin relieved, and General Smith transferred to the 9th Army Corps.—His Parting Address.—Colonel Taylor assigned to a Brigade.—A Contraband Prayer Meeting.—Sanitary Condition of the Army.