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remaining be formed into three brigades forming one division, to be composed of the following-named regiments:

Regiments Officers Men

First Brigade, 22 342

Brigadier General B.

R. Pierce: 61st New

York

64th New York 16 180

116th Pennsylvania 10 171

183rd Pennsylvania 21 332

69th New York National 23 206

Guard Artillery

155th New York 19 123

164th New York 19 223

170th New York 16 154

146 1,731

Second Brigade, Brevet 16 196

Major-General Macy or

Brevet Brigadier-

General Ramsey: 152nd

New York

20th Massachusetts 15 228

184th Pennsylvania 20 209

12th New Jersey 7 459

1st Delaware 18 625

76 1,717

Third Brigade, 34 598

Brigadier General R.

de Trobriand: 105th

Pennsylvania

7th New Jersey 30 518

8th New Jersey 22 475

11th Massachusetts 14 267

100 1,858

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

A. A. HUMPHREYS,

Major-General of Volunteers, Commanding.

GENERAL ORDERS, HDQRS. TWENTY-FOURTH ARMY CORPS, No. 72. Richmond, Va., June 28, 1865.

The following officers are hereby announced as the staff of the major-general commanding the corps:

Captain R. W. Thompson, commissary of subsistence, U. S. Volunteers, acting chief commissary of subsistence; Captain J. C. Gerard, assistant quartermaster, U. S. Volunteers; Bvt. Major Charles Sellmer, Eleventh Maine Volunteers, acting assistant inspector-general: Captain Patrick Hobon, Ninth Vermont Volunteers, assistant provost-marshal; Captain Samuel I. Givin, One hundred and eighty-eighth Pennsylvania Volunteers, chief of ambulances; First Lieutenant Sheldon Leavitt, jr., Fourth Massachusetts Cavalry, acting aide-de-camp; First Lieutenant Robert C. Sides, Second New Hampshire Volunteers, commanding couriers; Second Lieutenant Charles O. Lamson, Eleventh Maine Volunteers, acting commissary of subsistence. They will be obeyed and respected accordingly.

By command of Major General John Gibbon:

EDWARD MOALE,

Assistant Adjutant-General.


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