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Army and Navy vacancies filled.

Washington,Feb. 22.--The Senate has confirmed the following Presidential nominations, among many others: Lieut. Col. Sewall to be Colonel: Major Hoffman to be Lieutenant Colonel: Captains Burford, Whiting, Winders, Sackett and E. K. Smith, to be Majors: Lieutenants Charles S. Stewart, Blunt, Foster, Bryan, Reno, McCarthy, Derby, Hink, and Marshall, to be Captains; Major Emory to be Lieutenant Colonel; Assistant. Surgeon Head to be Surgeon. The following named Assistant Surgeons of the Army were also confirmed: Sporb, of Pennsylvania; Mechum and Wagner, of Maryland; Ramseur, of North Carolina, and Cormick, of Virginia.

The following Lieutenants of the Navy were confirmed to fill vacancies occasioned by resignations: Dalton, Bigelow, Bradford, Phitkion, Cook, and Sheyock; Fitch, Harris, Eastman, Wallace, Hackfield, McDougal, Porter, Moseley, Perkins, Blodgett, Phillips, and Lansdale are confirmed as Surgeons, and Samuel J. Jones and Shiveley as Assistant Surgeons, in place of those resigned.

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