take advantage of the said order must signify their intention before leaving the field, so that the prices may be entered and charged on their muster-out rolls. The prices fixed by the Ordnance Department are as follows: Muskets, all kinds, with or without accouterments, $6; Spencer carbines, with or without accouterments, $10; all other carbines and revolvers, $8. Sabers, swords, with or without belts, $3. Please promulgate this for the guidance of commissaries of musters and all others concerned.

E. D. TOWNSEND,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

By command of Major-General Meade:

GEO. D. RUGGLES,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS FIRST DIVISION,
TWENTY-FOURTH ARMY CORPS, Numbers 114.
Near Richmond, Va., June 12, 1865.

Bvt. Brigadier General G. B. Dandy, U. S Volunteers, having reported for duty, will at once assume command of the Third Brigade, relieving Colonel E. S. Greeley, Tenth Connecticut Volunteers.

By command of Brigadier General Thomas O. Osborn:

P. A. DAVIS,
Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.

HDQRS. DEPT. OF WASHINGTON, 22nd ARMY CORPS,

OFFICE CHIEF OF ARTILLERY,

Washington, D. C., June 12, 1865.

Colonel J. H. TAYLOR,

Chief of Staff:

COLONEL: As all the troops garrisoning the work around Washington, except a part of the First Wisconsin and Third Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, have been or soon will be mustered out of the service, I respectfully recommend that application be made for the following regiments to replace them, viz: First Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, Second Connecticut Heavy Artillery, Second New York Heavy Artillery, Sixth New York Heavy Artillery, Fourth New York Heavy Artillery, Fourteenth New York Heavy Artillery.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

J. A. HASKIN,

Brigadier-General of Volunteers and Chief of Artillery.

[First indorsement.]

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF WASHINGTON,
TWENTY-SECOND ARMY CORPS,

June 12, 1865.

Respectfully forwarded to the headquarters Middle Military Division, approved and recommended.

JNO. G. PARKE,

Major-General, Commanding.