HEADQUARTERS MILITARY DIVISION OF THE JAMES,
Richmond, Va., May 1, 1865.

Major-General ORD,

Commanding Department:

GENERAL: All colored troops in this department will be assigned to the Twenty-fifth Corps, and that corps will be put into a camp of instruction at City Point or Bermuda Hundred. No more colored troops will be enlisted.

Very respectfully,

H. W. HALLECK,

Major-General, Commanding.

HDQRS. DEPT. OF VIRGINIA, ARMY OF THE JAMES,
Richmond, Va., May 1, 1865.

Colonel MARKLAND,

Superintendent of Mails for the Army of the United States:

COLONEL: I am instructed by the major-general commanding the department to say that he deems it important that post offices be opened with as little delay as possible in the towns recently restored to the possession of the United in this department in order that the citizens may have facilities for resuming and carrying on their business. It is specially important that this be done at once in Richmond and Petersburg. Fredericksburg, Bowling Green, Columbia, Charlottesville, and Yorktown, are already occupied by U. S. forces, and garrisons will shortly be established at Lynchburg, Staunton, Gordonsville, and Danville. He requests that arrangements be made for the regular transmittal of mails to and from all these places. At those points where garrisons are established these arrangements may be made at once, and at the other points named as soon as the troops reach them.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

ED. W. SMITH,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPT. OF VA., ARMY OF THE JAMES, No. 50. Richmond, Va., May 1, 1865.

In obedience to orders from headquarters Military Division of the James all colored troops in this department are hereby assigned to the Twenty-fifth Army Corps. The corps will at once be placed in camp of instruction at City Point. All detached regiments and companies of colored troops will be relieved and sent to City Point to report to the corps commander.

By command of Major-General Ord:

ED. W. SMITH,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

ARTILLERY HEADQUARTERS, ARMY OF THE POTOMAC,

May 1, 1865.

Brevet Brigadier-General ABBOT,

Commanding Siege Artillery, Army of the Potomac:

This army is ordered to Richmond preparatory to marching to Alexandria. Headquarters will probably be in Richmond to-morrow night,