[Extract]
Adjutant & Inspector Gen's office,
Richmond, Sept. 11th 1863.
Special Orders, No. 216.-- XXVI. Major J. W. Mallett, P.A.C.S. Artillery, heretofore assigned to duty in the Ordnance Department, is hereby officially announced as Superintendent C. S. Laboratories of the Ordnance Department, with headquarters at Macon, Ga.