HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY,
Washington, D. C., March 24, 1864-3. 45 p. m.

Lieutenant-General GRANT,

Army of the Potomac:

General Burnside asks to have the Second Ohio Cavalry, now at Cincinnati and not mounted, ordered to his camp at Annapolis. This is a veteran regiment, which formerly belonged to the Army of the Ohio. Shall they be so ordered?

H. W. HALLECK,

Major-General, Chief of Staff.

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC,
March 24, 1864-10. 20 p. m.

Colonel E. D. TOWNSEND,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

Your dispatch directing that Major-General Pleasonton be relieved from duty with this army was duly received. My absence at Culpeper this afternoon prevented its prompt acknowledgment.

GEO. G. MEADE,

Major-General, Commanding.

SPECIAL ORDERS, WAR DEPT., ADJT., GENERAL'S OFFICE, Numbers 126.
Washington, March 24, 1864.

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64. The following officers, on being relieved from duty in the Army of the Potomac, will report as follows:

Major General George Sykes, U. S. Volunteers, in person, to Major-General Curtis, commanding Department of Kansas, Fort Leavenworth, Kans. Major General W. H. French, U. S. Volunteers, will repair to Philadelphia, Pa., and report by letter to the Adjutant-General U. S. Army. Major General John Newton, U. S. volunteers, will repair to Cincinnati, Ohio, and report to Major-General Sherman, commanding Division of the Mississippi. Brigadier General J. R. Kenly, U. S. Volunteers, in person, to Major-General Wallace, U. S. Volunteers, commanding Middle Department, Baltimore, Md. Brigadier General Solomon Meredith, U. S. Volunteers, will repair to Cairo, Ill., and report to the commanding officer at that place.

By order of the Secretary of War:

E. D. TOWNSEND,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

GENERAL ORDERS, HDQRS. ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, Numbers 10.
March 24, 1864.

I. The following order has been received from the War Department:*

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II. The following arrangements are made to carry out the provisions of the foregoing order:

The Second, Fifth, and Sixth Army Corps will each be consolidated into two divisions. The First and Second Divisions of the

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*See General Orders, Numbers 115, p. 717.

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