GENERAL ORDERS,
WAR DEPT., ADJT., GENERAL'S OFFICE, Numbers 64.
Washington, April 13, 1865.

The headquarters of the Armies of the United States are established at Washington, D. C.

By command of Lieutenant-Generalk G rant:

W. A. NICHOLS,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

SPECIAL ORDRES,
HDQRS. ARMIES OF THE UNITED STATES,

No 76.
City Point, Va., April 13, 1865.

I. Brigadier General M. R. Patrick, provost-marshal-general, Armies operating against Richmond, and his staff, will report to Major General E. O. C. Ord for assignment to duty as provost-marshal-general, Department of Virginia.

II. The Twentieth Regiment New York Infantry is transferred from the Army of the Potomac to the Department of Virginia, and will report to Major General E. O. C. Ord for assignment to duty with General Patrick.

III. Lieutenant Colonel F. T. Dent, aide-de-camp to the lieutenant-general, having been appointed a brigadier-general of volunteers, is hereby relieved from duty on the staff, and will report in person to Major General E. O. C. Ord, commanding Department of Virginia, for orders.

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VI. Bvt. Brigadier General John E. Mulford, agent of exchange, will, as soon as practicable, take station in Richmond, Va., until further orders.

By command of Lieutenant-General Grant:

T. S. BOWERS,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, Burkeville, Va., April 13, 1865-1.309 p. m.

Lieutenant-General GRANT:

I find it impossible to have your orders to withdraw the troops belonging to this army at City Point executed, in consequence of the interference of Brigadier-General Patrick, who continues to exercise control over them in the face of my orders. General Patrick has also assumed to retain a battalion of the Fourteenth Infantry which I had ordered General Patrick has also assumed to retain a battalion of the Forteenth Infantry which I had ordered to the front. I understood the duties heretofore executed by these troops would now be performed by troops of the Army of the James. I have therefore to request you will instruct Brigadier-General Patrick to this effect and request him not to detain troops under my orders, or in case circumstances of these troops (that is, those formerly at City Point), the Fourteenth Infantry I desire to join me.

GEO. G. MEADE,
Major-General.

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, April 13, 1865.

Brigadier-General PATRICK,

City Point:

General Meade directs me to say to you that under General Grant's order he claims all the troops now at City Point belonging to the Army