[Indorsement.]

HEADQUARTERS TWENTY-FOURTH CORPS,
June 1, 1865.

Respectfully forwarded and cordially recommended.

JOHN GIBBON,

Major-General of Volunteers, Commanding Corps.

HEADQUARTERS TWENTY-FIFTH ARMY CORPS,
Camp Lincoln, Va., May 31, 1865.

Captain L. L. LANGDON,

Commanding Artillery Brigade, Twenty-fifth Army Corps:

CAPTAIN: You will commence embarking at City Point at once, and when embarked will proceed to Fort Monroe and await further orders. Any supplies necessary will be furnished on application to Colonel James, chief quartermaster, Department of Virginia. An opportunity will be given your officers to visit Norfolk for their pay.

By order of Major-General Weitzel:

D. D. WHEELER,

Lieutenant-Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.

WAR DEPARTMENT, ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE,

Washington, May 31, 1865.

Major General W. S. HANCOCK, U. S. Volunteers,

Commanding Middle Military Division, Washington, D. C.:

SIR: I have the honor to inform you that in directing Brigadier General Francis Fessenden, U. S. Volunteers, to report to you for duty it was the intention of the Secretary of War that General Fessenden should be assigned to duty with the First Veteran Corps. I have, therefore, respectfully, to request that you cause paragraph 3, Special Orders, Numbers 115, May 14, 1865, from headquarters Middle Military Division, directing General Fessenden to report to the commanding general, Department of West Virginia, for duty, to be so amended as to assign him to duty with the First Corps.

I am, sir, &c.,

E. D. TOWNSEND,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS MIDDLE MILITARY DIVISION,
May 31, 1865-9.05 p. m.

Brevet Major-General TORBERT, Commanding Winchester:

Major-General Hancock directs that the Ninety first Ohio Volunteers proceed overland to Cumberland and report to Brevet Major-General Emory, commanding Department of West Virginia.

C. H. MORGAN,

Brigadier-General of Volunteers and Chief of Staff.

WINCHESTER, May 31, 1865.

General EMORY:

In compliance with orders from headquarters Middle Military Division the Thirteenth West Virginia Infantry left by railroad this a. m. for Grafton.

TORBERT,

General.