GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DISTRICT OF THE NOTTOWAY, Numbers 9.
Petersburg, Va., June 22, 1865.

Some additions having been made in the staff of this command since the publication of General Orders, Numbers 1., the following-named officers are announced as composing the staff at present, viz: Major J. M. Howard, assistant adjutant-general, assistant adjutant-general, Bvt. Major George A. Hicks, assistant-adjutant general, assistant adjutant-general; Captain E. O. Brown, additional aide-de-camp, aide-de-camp; Captain A. P. Barber, Second Pennsylvania Artillery, acting aide-de-camp and commanding headquarters guard; Captain C. W. Folsom, assistant quartermaster, chief quartermaster; Captain Asa Gregory, commissary of subsistence, chief commissary of subsistence and treasurer of the civil funds; Surg. J. P. Prince, U. S. Volunteers, chief medical officer; Surg. C. H. Porter, Sixth New York Artillery, medical inspector; Major J. B. Campbell, Tenth New York Artillery, assistant inspector-general; Captain Hermann Krauth, One hundred and third New York Volunteers; chief commissary of musters; Lieutenant A. J. Bellows, Fourteenth U. S. Infantry, assistant commissary of musters; Captain E. Donaldson, Sixth New York Artillery, acting ordnance officer.

GEO. L. HARTSUFF,

Major-General, Commanding.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPT. OF WASHINGTON,
TWENTY-SECOND ARMY CORPS, Numbers 88.
June 22, 1865.

Bvt. Lieutenant Colonel John M. Wait, Eighth Illinois Cavalry, is hereby relieved from duty at these headquarters as acting assistant inspector-general, and will proceed to Saint Louis, Mo. there to report to his regimental commander for duty. The major-general commanding regrets the necessity which deprives him of the valuable services of Colonel Waite.

By command of Major-General Parke:

J. H. TAYLOR,

Chief of Staff and Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS FIFTH ARMY CORPS,
June 23, 1865

Colonel GEORGE D. RUGGLES,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

COLONEL: In reply to your communication of the 22nd instant, marked "confidential," I have the honor to state that, in my judgment, the general offices of the Fifth Corps "most entitled to and best fitted for assignment to command" rank as follows: Bvt. Major General R. B. Ayres, commanding Second Division; Brigadier General J. L. Chamberlain, commanding First Division; Brigadier General Henry Baxter, commanding Third Division; Brigadier General Joseph Hayes, commanding brigade, Bvt. Brigadier General E. M. Gregory, Ninety-first Pennsylvania, commanding brigade, Bvt. Brigadier General Adrian R. Root, Ninety-fourth New York, commanding brigade. Bvt. Major General S. W. Crawford being absent without any authority known to these headquarters, no mention has been made of his name.

I am, colonel, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

CHAS. GRIFFIN,

Brevet Major-General, Commanding.