[Special Field Orders, No. 10.]

HDQRS. MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI,

IN THE FIELD, SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, January 12, 1865

1. Brevet Brigadier-General Easton, chief-quartermaster, will turn over to Simeon Draper, Esq., agent of the United States Treasury Department, all cotton now in the city of Savannah, prize of war, taking his receipt for the same in gross, and returning, for it to the quartermaster-general. He will also afford Mr. Draper all the facilities in his power in the way of transportation, labor, etc., to enable him to handle the cotton with expedition.

2. General Easton will also turn over to Mr. Draper the customhouse, and such other buildings in the city of Savannah as he may need in the execution of his office.

     
By order of General W. T. Sherman,    
  L. M. Dayton, Aide-de-Camp.