[First indorsement.]

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF WASHINGTON, TWENTY-SECOND ARMY CORPS,
May 21, 1865.

Respectfully forwarded to the headquarters Middle Military Division. For the reasons suggested by Brigadier-General Carroll, it is recommended that a place in the approaching review may be assigned to the troops of the First Corps now serving at Camp Stoneman.

C. C. AUGUR,

Major-General, Commanding.

[Second indorsement.]

WASHINGTON, D. C., May 21, 1865.

Respectfully forwarded to the lieutenant-general of the Armies of the United States for such action as he may deem expedient.

WINF'D S. HANCOCK,

Major General, U. S. Volunteers, Commanding Middle Military Division.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF WASHINGTON, TWENTY-SECOND ARMY CORPS,
Washington, D. C., May 21, 1865.

General GAMBLE,

Commanding, Fairfax Court-House:

Send the Fourteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry to report to General Chapman at Falls Church. They should leave Fairfax Court-House at 4 a. m. to-morrow.

C. C. AUGUR,

Major-General.

WASHINGTON, D. C., May 22, 1865-11.55 a. m.

Major-General MEADE,

Army of the Potomac:

I would like to send General Barlow to command a division Twenty-fifth Corps. Ascertain if this will suit him. If so, he should leave here on Wednesday at furthest.

U. S. GRANT,

Lieutenant-General.

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC,
May 22, 1865. (Received 9 p. m.)

Lieutenant General U. S. GRANT:

Very reluctantly and for imperative personal reasons I must decline a command which will take me so far as Texas at present.

FRANCIS C. BARLOW,

Brevet Major-General.