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HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC,
March 25, 1865.Brigadier-General MACY:
The major-General commanding directs that you move your command down to the Jones house and there await further orders.
GEO. D. RUGGLES,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, OFFICE OF PROVOST-MARSHAL-GENERAL,
March 25, 1865.Brigadier-General PATRICK,
City Point:
There are now about 300 more prisoners that will be sent down in the morning. Total so far, 2,338.
PH. SCHUYLER,
Captain and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, OFFICE OF THE PROVOST-MARSHAL-GENERAL,
March 25, 1865.Brigadier-General PATRICK,
Provost-Marshal-General,
Armies operating against Richmond, City Point:
GENERAL: Continual arrivals of prisoners have swelled the number forwarded to you this p. m. 2,571. At 12 to-night I send you 440 prisoners of war.
GEO. N. MACY,
Bvt. Brigadier General and Provost-Marshal-General, Army of the Potomac.
SPECIAL ORDERS,
WAR DEPT., ADJT. GENERAL'S OFFICE, Numbers 145. Washington, March 25, 1865.* * * * *
38. capt. L. B. Norton, Signal Corps, U. S. Army, is hereby relieved from duty in the Department of Virginia, and will report to the chief signal office, U. S. Army, at Washington, D. C., to be assigned to the position held at present by Captain, Joseph . Shencer, Signal Corps, U. S. Army.
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40. Bvt. Major J. C. Paine, Signal Corps, U. S. Army, is hereby relieved from duty in the Army of the Potomac, and will report to Major-General Ord, commanding the Department of Virginia, to assume charge of the signal detachment connected with that department.
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By orders of the Secretary of War:
E. D. TOWNSEND,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
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