Respectfully referred to Colonel Heg, commanding Third Brigade, First Division, who will have this creditable compliment conveyed to the above-mentioned regiments.

By command of Major-General McCook.

A. C. McClurg,

Capt. and A. A. G.

On the 15th of July, 1863, the following order was issued:

Headquarters, Department of the Cumberland, }

Inspector-General’s Office, Tullahoma, July 15, 1863. }

Colonel: I have the honor to make the following extract from the semi-monthly inspection report of Lieutenant-Colonel H. C. Fisher, Assistant Inspector-General 20th Army Corps:

Extract—“The Eighth Kansas, lately attached to this corps, is splendidly equipped and well cared for. Its long stay in Nashville has enabled it to attain a polish to a certain degree impracticable in the field, but its example is valuable to the corps.”

Very respectfully,      A. S. Burt, Capt. and A. A. G.