Headquarters
	                    Army of the Potomac
	                     Washington, December 11 1861
Special Orders
       No. 180.  (Extract)
	                              The following named
Officers having tendered their resignations are honorably
discharged from the military service of the United States.

Captain W. L.B. Stears, 14th New York State Militia

	              By Command of
	                  Major General McClellan
		   	         (signed) S. Williams
		            Assistant Adjutant General