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No. 22.-Brigadier General William F. Barry, U. S. Army, Chief of Artillery Army of the Potomac, of the siege.


No. 23.-Colonel Henry J. Hunt, commanding Artillery Reserve, of operations April 18-June 25.


No. 24.-Major Alexander Doull, Second New York Artillery, Ordnance Officer of Siege Train, of the siege.


No. 25.-Brigadier General Erasmus D. Keyes, U. S. Army, commanding Fourth Corps, of operations April 4-15.


No. 26.-Brigadier General Charles S. Hamilton, U. S. Army, commanding Third Division, Third Corps, of operations April 11-12.


No. 27.-Colonel Charles T. Campbell, Fifty-seventh Pennsylvania Infantry, of skirmish near Yorktown April 11.


No. 28.-Major General George B. McClellan, U. S. Army, of the engagement of Lee's Mill, or Burnt Chimneys.


No. 29.-Brigadier General William F. Smith, U. S. Army, commanding Second Division, Fourth Corps, of engagement at Lee's Mill, or Burnt Chimneys.


No. 30.-Captain Romeyn B. Ayres, Fifth U. S. Artillery, Chief of Artillery Smith's division, of engagement at Lee's Mill, or Burnt Chimneys.


No. 31.-Captain Terence J. Kennedy, First New York Battery, of engagement at Lee's Mill, or Burnt Chimneys.


No. 32.-Captain Thaddeus P. Mott, Third New York Battery, of engagement at Lee's Mill, or Burnt Chimneys.


No. 33.-Brigadier General Winfield S. Hancock, U. S. Army, commanding First Brigade, Smith's division, of engagement at Lee's Mill,or Burnt Chimneys.


No. 34.-Brigadier General William T. H. Brooks, U. S. Army, commanding Second Brigade, Smith's division, of engagement at Lee's Mill, or Burnt Chimneys, with congratulatory order.


No. 35.-Colonel Breed N. Hyde, Third Vermont Infantry, of engagement at Lee's Mill, or Burnt Chimneys.


No. 36.-Captain Fernando C. Harrington, Third Vermont Infantry, of engagement at Lee's Mill, or Burnt Chimneys.


No. 37.-Colonel Edwin H. Stoughton, Fourth Vermont Infantry, of engagement at Lee's Mill, or Burnt Chimneys.


No. 38.-Colonel Henry A. Smalley, Fifth Vermont Infantry, of engagement at Lee's Mill, or Burnt Chimneys.


No. 39.-Colonel Nathan Lord, jr., Sixth Vermont Infantry, of engagement at Lee's Mill, or Burnt Chimneys.


No. 40.-Brigadier General Charles S. Hamilton, U. S. Army, commanding division, of engagement near Lee's Mill, or Burnt Chimneys.


No. 41.-Major General Edwin V. Sumner, U. S. Army, of skirmish near Yorktown April 22.


No. 42.-Brigadier General John W. Davidson, U. S. Army, commanding Third Brigade, Smith's division, of operations April 19-22.


No. 43.-Major General George B. McClellan, U. S. Army, of an affair near Yorktown, April 26, with congratulatory letter from Honorable E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War.


No. 44.-Brigadier General Cuvier Grover, U. S. Army, commanding First Brigade, Hooker's division, Third Corps, of an affair near Yorktown April 26.


No. 45.-Brigadier General Daniel Butterfield, U. S. Army, as General of the Trenches, April 27.


No. 46.-Brigadier General David B. Birney, U. S. Army, as General of the Trenches, April 28.


No. 47.-Brigadier General Erasmus D. Keyes, U. S. Army, commanding Fourth Corps, of operations on the left, April 27-29, with indorsement.


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