taken from the division train. The amount of supplies prescribed by orders will be taken, four days' on person, eight days' in wagons, and this amount to be kept up. The regiment will move at once; needed not wait for the supplies in wagons. Pl.ease notify me what regiment you send. A shall guard may accompany the wagons if they are far behind the regiment.

By command of Major-General Humphreys:

C. A. WHITTIER,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

[Inclosure.] SPECIAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS SECOND ARMY CORPS, No. 87. April 20, 1865.

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2. Brigadier-General De Trobriand, commanding Third Division, will at once send a strong regiment to Farmville to garrison that place until such time as the sick and wounded men of our army shall have been removed.

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By command of Major-General Humphreys:

C. A. WHITTIER,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS SECOND DIVISION, SECOND ARMY CORPS,
April 20, 1865.

Lieutenant Colonel CHARLES A. WHITTER,

Assistant Adjutant-General, Second Army Corps:

COLONEL: I have the honor to forward recommendations for promotion received from brigaded commanders. I have not sufficient knowledge of the circumstances (almost all of which disapprove of the recommendations herein contained. I have, therefore, the honor to transmit them without comment.

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

FRANCIS C. BARLOW,

Brevet Major-General of Volunteers, Commanding Division.

[First indorsement.]

HEADQUARTERS SECOND ARMY CORPS,
April 21, 1865.

Respectfully forwarded.

The following recommendations of brigade commanders of the Second Division are approved, and the promotions recommended:

First Brigade: Lieutenant Colonel George W. La Point, Seventh Michigan Volunteers, to be colonel by brevet, April 2. Captain SA. B. Holmes, acting assistant inspector-general, to be major by brevet, April 2.

Second Brigade: Captain Robert Heggart, commanding Sixty-ninth New York National Guard, to be major by brevet, April 2. Captain Timothy J. Burkem, commanding One hundred and sixty-fourth New York Volunteers, to be major by brevet, April 2.

Third Brigade: I am unable to make any recommendations.

A. A. HUMPHREYS,

Major-General, Commanding.