GENERAL ORDERS,
WAR DEPARTMENT, ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE, No. 80. Washington, May 1, 1865.

Captain Peter T. Hudson, aide-de-camp, is announced as aide-de-camp on the staff of Lieutenant-General Grant, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel, vice Dent, appointed brigadier-general, U. S. Volunteers.

By command of Lieutenant-General Grant:

W. A. NICHOLS,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

ARTILLERY HEADQUARTERS, ARMY OF THE POTOMAC,

May 1, 1865.

Brigadier-General HAYS,

Commanding Artillery Reserve, Army of the Potomac:

This army is ordered to Richmond, preparatory to marching to Alexandria. Headquarters will be at City Point to-morrow. General Meade directs that everything not needed by your command on the march will at once be turned in to the proper depots at City Point. You will await further orders. Please acknowledge the receipt of this dispatch.

E. R. WARNER,

Brevet Colonel and Acting Chief of Artillery.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. SECOND ARMY CORPS, No. 17. May 1, 1865.

General Orders, No. 16, of yesterday, are modified by directions from army headquarters so as to direct that the corps will start its march with two days' rations on person, six days' in wagons. This will be done without diminishing the number of wagons. It is probable that the corps will not start until Tuesday noon or Wednesday morning.

By command of Brevet Major-General Barlow:

CHAS. A. WHITTIER,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS SECOND ARMY CORPS, No. 97. May 1, 1865.

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6. During the absence of Bvt. Colonel J. S. Smith, acting as chief commissary of subsistence of the army, Captain A. C. Voris, commissary of subsistence of volunteers, will perform the duties of chief commissary of subsistence of the corps.

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By command of Brevet Major-General Barlow:

CHAS. A. WHITTIER,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

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