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My remarks about McCown's Division not being part of the Army of Tennessee are wrong. According to the O.R., Ser. I, vol. 23, part 2, page 654, McCown's Division was reassigned to Polk's Corps, Army of Tennessee. Prior to that date it had been part of Kirby Smith's command, serving with the Army of Tennessee during the Murfreesboro Campaign.

SPECIAL ORDERS, HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF TENNESSEE, No. 52. Tullahoma, February 27, 1863.

IV. Maj. Gen. J. P. McCown, Provisional Army, is placed in arrest and charges preferred against him, and will proceed to Chattanooga and await farther orders.
V. Brig. Gen. A. P. Stewart, Provisional Army, is assigned to the command of the division of which Major-General McCown is relieved. It will constitute a part of Lieutenant General Polks corps.

By command of General Bragg: KINLOCH FALCONER, Assistant Adjutant- General.

On June 6, 1863, Stewart was reassigned to command of a different division being assembled for duty with the Army of Tennessee. Most of the regiments assigned to McCown's Division wre ordered to Mississippi in May 1863 and eventually became part of Maj. Gen. Samuel G. French's Division.

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