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HEADQUARTERS IN THE FIELD, March 25, 1864.

Major-General SIGEL,
Cumberland:

A dispatch to K. V. Whaley, from you, in reference to Twentieth Pennsylvania Cavalry, has been sent to these headquarters. The commanding general directs me to ask who K. V. Whaley is.

C. B. COMSTOCK,

Lieutenant-Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.


HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF WEST VIRGINIA,
Cumberland, March 25, 1864.

Lieutenant-Colonel COMSTOCK,

Asst. Adjt. General, Hdqrs. Army of the Potomac:

K. V. Whaley is a citizen of West Virginia, and a member of the House of Representatives.

F. SIGEL,

Major-General.

GENERAL ORDERS, HEADQUARTERS FIRST ARMY CORPS, Numbers 9.
March 25, 1864.

Upon relinquishing command I take occasion to express the pride and pleasure I have experienced in my connection with you and my profound regret at our separation. Identified by its services with the history of the war the First Corps gave at Gettysburg a crowning proof of valor and endurance, in saving from the grasp of the enemy the strong position upon which the battle was fought. The terrible losses suffered by the corps in that conflict attest its supreme devotion to the country. Though the corps has lost its distinctive name by the present changes, history will not silent upon the magnitude of its services.

JOHN NEWTON,

Major-General of Volunteers.

GENERAL ORDERS, HEADQUARTERS SECOND ARMY CORPS, Numbers 11.
Cole's Hill, Culpeper Co., Va., March 25, 1864.

Under the provisions of General Orders, Numbers 10, headquarters Army of the Potomac, of March 24, 1864, the following organization is announced for the Second Army Corps:

The original regiments of the Second Corps will be consolidated into two divisions, with the following arrangements of brigades and assignment of commanders:

First Division, Brigadier General F. C. Barlow commanding:

First Brigade, Colonel Nelson A. Miles, Sixty-first New York Volunteers, commanding: Sixty-first New York Volunteers, Eighty-first Pennsylvania Volunteers, One hundred and fortieth Pennsylvania Volunteers, One hundred and eighty-third Pennsylvania Volunteers, Twenty-sixth michigan Volunteers, Sixth Minnesota Volunteers.

Second Brigade, Colonel T. A. Smyth, First Delaware Volunteers, commanding (temporarily): Twenty-eighth Massachusetts Volunteers,


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