HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF WASHINGTON,
TWENTY-SECOND ARMY CORPS,

Washington, D. C., June 9, 1865

Bvt. Major General JOHN A. RAWLINS,

Chief of Staff:

GENERAL: In reply to your inquiry of this date I have the honor to inform you that the two brigades of cavalry under orders for Louisville are composed as follows: First Brigade, Colonel B. Porter commanding; Third Massachusetts Cavalry, Twenty-first New York Cavalry, and Fourteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry. Second Brigade, Colonel A. W. Adams; First New York (Lincoln) Cavalry, First West Virginia Cavalry, Second West Virginia Cavalry, Third West Virginia Cavalry, and Sixth West Virginia Cavalry. The whole commanded by Bvt. Brigadier General W. B. Tibbits.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

A. E. KING,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

(In the absence of Major-General Parke.)

WAR DEPARTMENT,

Washington City, June 10, 1865.

Major-General HALLECK,

Richmond, Va.:

In the new assignment of military commands at President has assigned to you the Military Division of the Pacific, embracing the Department of the Columbia and Department of California, with headquarters at San Francisco. General Ord has been assigned to the Department of the Columbia, embracing the State of Oregon and Territories of Washington and Idaho, with headquarters, at Fort Vancouver. The Department of Virginia has been assigned to General Terry. The order has not yet been published, but will be issued in a few days. General Terry will proceed to Richmond to confer with you and make arrangements for entering upon his command. You and General Ord will, of course, retain your present commands until they can be turned over in proper shape to General Terry.

EDWIN M. STANTON,

Secretary of War.

WAR DEPARTMENT, ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE,

Washington, June 10, 1865.

Major General A. H. TERRY, U. S. Volunteers,

Washington, D. C.:

SIR: By direction of the President the Department of Virginia has been created, to embrace the State of Virginia excepting Fairfax County. You are hereby assigned to the command with your headquarters at Richmond.

By order of the Secretary of War:

E. D. TOWNSEND,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

(Copies to Generals Hancock, Miles, and Schofield.)