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A printed copy of an order dissolving the Fourth Military District (Mississippi and Arkansas), a unit that had been created by Congressional order in 1867. General Sherman and E.D. Townsend, Adjutant General, are named in the order.

Includes an account of the wreck of the mail steamer Winfield Scott and the efforts of its skipper, Captain Blount, to mitigate the disaster. Included also are details of William Walker's "robber expedition" against Lower California and General Hitchcock's subsequent seizure of the brig Arrow.