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STONY MOUNTAIN, March 30, 1864--5 p. m.

Captain NORTON,

Chief Signal Officer, Army of the Potomac:

Small force of the enemy are working on rifle-pits between Raccoon and Somerville Fords.

TAYLOR,

Captain and Signal Officer.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS SECOND ARMY CORPS, Numbers 12.
March 30, 1864.

I. The following officers are announced on the staff of the major-general commanding:

Lieutenant Colonel Francis A. Walker, assistant adjutant-general.

Captain William P. Wilson, One hundred and forty-eighth Pennsylvania Volunteers, acting assistant adjutant-general.

Lieutenant Colonel C. H. Morgan, assistant inspector-general.

Major W. Houghton, Fourteenth Indiana Volunteers, acting assistant inspector-general.

Lieutenant Colonel R. N. Batchelder, chief quartermaster.

Captain A. H. Young, assistant quartermaster.

Lieutenant Colonel J. S. Smith, chief commissary of subsistence.

Surg. A. N. Dougherty, U. S. Volunteers, medical director.

Asst. Surg. Charles Smart, Sixty-third New York Volunteers, medical inspector.

Major W. G. Mitchell, aide-de-camp.

Captain I. B. Parker, aide-de-camp.

Captain W. D. W. Miller, aide-de-camp.

Captain J. G. Pelton, Fourteenth Connecticut Volunteers, chief of ambulance corps.

Captain E. P. Brownson, additional aide-de-camp, commissary of musters.

Captain H. H. Bingham, One hundred and fortieth Pennsylvania Volunteers, judge-advocate.

Major S. O. Bull, Fifty-third Pennsylvania Volunteers, provost-marshal.

Captain Alexander M. McCune, Seventy-fourth New York Volunteers, assistant provost-marshal.

Captain E. C. Cauret, Forty-second New York Volunteers, commanding provost guard.

Captain I. Thickstun, chief signal officer.

Lieutenant William H. R. Neel, acting signal officer.

II. Lieutenant Colonel C. H. Morgan, assistant inspector-general, is announced as chief of staff to the major-general commanding; he will be obeyed and respected accordingly.

By command of Major-General Hancock:

FRANCIS A. WALKER,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

STEVENSBURG, VA., March 30, 1864.

Captain E. B. PARSONS,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

We have 4,293 men armed and equipped. We have 3,611 service-able horses. We have 1,122 dismounted men; 680 of these latter are


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