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1241 Series I Volume XLVI-III Serial 97 - Appomattox Campaign Part III

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To be brigadier-generals by brevet: Colonel George D. Ruggles, U. S. Army, chief of the adjutant-general's department Army of the Potomac; Bvt. Colonel J. C. Duane, major of engineers, chief engineer, Army of the Potomac; Colonel R. N. Batchelder, chief quartermaster, Army of the Potomac; Bvt. Colonel Thomas Wilson, chief commissary, Army of the Potomac; Bvt. Colonel E. L. Campbell, Fifteenth New Jersey Volunteers, acting judge-advocate.

To be colonels by brevet: Bvt. Lieutenant Colonel S. F. Barstow, assistant adjutant-general of volunteers; Bvt. Lieutenant Colonel Thomas A. McParlin, surgeon, U. S. Army, and medical director, Army of the Potomac; Bvt. Lieutenant Colonel N. Michler, major of engineers, assistant to chief engineer; Bvt. Lieutenant Colonel W. H. Paine, captain and additional adie-de-camp; Bvt. Lieutenant Colonel J. C. Biddle, major and additional adie-de-camp.

To be lieutenant-colonels by brevet: Bvt. Major William Jay, captain and additional aide-de-camp; Bvt. Major F. M. Bache, captain Sixteenth U. S. Infantry and acting aide-de-camp; Bvt. Major J. C. Bates, captain Eleventh U. S. Infantry, chief commissary of musters and acting adie-de-camp; Surg. John A. Lidell, U. S. Volunteers, acting medical inspector; Bvt. Major George Meade, captain and aide-de-camp; Bvt. Major J. R. Coxe, captain and commissary of subsistence of volunteers.

To be majors by brevet; Captain C. D. Emory, Ninth U. S. Infantry, acting aide-de-camp; Captain C. L. Davis, U. S. Signal Corps, chief signal officer; Captain E. A. Flint, First Massachusetts Cavalry, commanding escort; Captain J. J. Higginson, First Massachusetts Cavalry, commanding escort; Captain C. B. Whittemore, assistant quartermaster of volunteers; Captain Rufus K. Case, assistant quartermaster of volunteers; Captain W. T. Simms, Fifty-ninth New York Volunteers, acting aide-de-camp; Captain W. E. Barrowxs, Nineteenth Massachusetts Volunteers acting aide-de-camp; Asst. Surg. J. B. Brinton, U. S. Army, medical purveyor of the Army of the Potomac; Asst. Surg. J. Sim Smith, U. S. Army.

To be captains by brevet: Asst. Surg. J. B. Brinton, U. S. Army, and medical purveyor, Army of the Potomac, for the campaign of the Wilderness, 1864, to August 1, 1864; Asst. Surg. J. Sim Smith, U. S. Army, assistant medical director, Army of the Potomac, for the campaign of the Wilderness, 1864, to August 1, 1864; First Lieutenant F. H. Parker, Ordnance Department; First Lieutenant F. S. Benson, Signal Corps. Parker, Ordnance Department; First Lieutenant F. S. Benson, Signal Corps.

I am, general, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

GEO. G. MEADE,

Major-General, Commanding.


HDQRS. ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, ORDNANCE OFFICE,
May 31, 1865.

Colonel GEORGE D. RUGGLES,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

SIR: I have the honor to make the following report of artillery and small-arms received by the ordnance department, captured from and surrendered by the enemy in the recent campaign, in operations around Petersburg, and against the rebel army after the evacuation. This does not indlucde the heavy artillery which was collected by General Abbot and not received by any of the ordnance officers of this army: Light 12-pounder bronze guns, U. S., 70; light 12-pounder bronze guns, rebel, 62; 12-pounder cast-iron guns, banded, rebel 34; 3-inch wrought-


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