in readiness to move at a moment's notice in light marching order, with sixth rounds of ammunition and four days' rations; Twenty-seventh Michigan Volunteers. Thirty-seventh Wisconsin Volunteers, One hundred and ninth New York Volunteers, Thirty-eight Wisconsin Volunteers. The present picket will remain under charge of the officers already detailed. The works on your front will be garrisoned by the Fifty-first [Pennsylvania] and Eight Michigan Veteran Volunteers. In case of a movement you will command the troops of your brigade that take part in it.

I am, very respectfully,

ROBT. A. HUTCHINS,

Assistant Adjutant General.

HEADQUARTERS FIRST DIVISION, NINTH ARMY CORPS,
February 22, 1865.

Colonel BYRON M. CUTCHEON,

Commanding Second Brigade:

In accordance with instructions from corps headquarters, you will order the First Michigan Sharpshooters, Second Michigan, and Sixtieth Ohio Volunteers to be readiness to move at a moment's notice, in light marching order, with sixty rounds of ammunition and four days' rations. The other regiment of your brigade will garrison the works on your front. The present picket will remain under charge of the officers already detailed. In case of a movement you will assume command of the entire line of this division, and the above named regiments will report to Bvt. Colonel G. P. Robinson, commanding Third Brigade, at his headquarters.

I am, very respectfully,

ROBT. A. HUTCHINS,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS FIRST DIVISION, NINTH ARMY CORPS,
February 22, 1865.

Colonel G. P. ROBINSON,

Commanding Third Brigade:

SIR: In accordance with instructions from corps headquarters, you will order the following-named regiments to hold themselves in readiness to move at a moment's notice, in light marching order, with sixty rounds of ammunition and four days' rations: Third Maryland Battalion Veteran Volunteers, Twenty-ninth Massachusetts Veteran Volunteers, Fourteenth New York Heavy Artillery, Fifth-seventh Massachusetts Volunteers. The remaining regiments of your brigade will garrison the works in your front. In case of a movement you will command the troops of your brigade above-named, as also the First Michigan Sharpshooters, Second Michigan Veteran Volunteers, and Sixtieth Ohio Volunteers, which have been ordered to report to you.

I am, very respectfully,

ROBT. A. HUTCHINS,

Assistant Adjutant-General.