their knowledge of the city will render them invaluable here at some day, which I hope is not far distant. May I ask that Colonel Streight's regiment be sent here?

I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

B. F. BUTLER,

Major-General, Commanding.

GENERAL HECKMAN'S HEADQUARTERS,

March 28, 1864.

Colonel KEESE:

Four boat-loads of the enemy have landed at Crum's Point and driven our pickets away. You will order Cole's cavalry to proceed in that direction immediately, and the Fifth Pennsylvania will report to you as soon as they can arrive there.

C. A. HECKMAN,

Brigadier-General, Commanding.

GENERAL ORDERS,
WAR DEPT., ADJT. GENERAL'S OFFICE, Numbers 126.
Washington, March 29, 1864.

The following officers are announced as of the staff of Lieutenant-General Grant:

Lieutenant Colonel C. B. Comstock, senior aide-de-camp, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel.

Lieutenant Colonel O. E. Babcock and Major F. T. Dent, Fourth U. S. Infantry, aides-de-camp, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel.

Lieutenant Colonel W. L. Duff, Second Illinois Artillery, assistant inspector-general.

Major W. R. Rowley, aide-de-camp, and Captain Adam Badeau, additional aide-de-camp, private secretaries, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel.

By order of the Secretary of War:

E. D. TOWNSEND,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
WAR DEPT., ADJT. GENERAL'S OFFICE, Numbers 131.
Washington, March 29, 1864.

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66. Paragraph 29 of Special Orders Numbers 129, March 28, 1864, from this office, is hereby revoked, and the following substituted:

Major General C. C. Washburn, U. S. Volunteers, will at once repair to Annapolis, Md., and report to Major-General Burnside, U. S. Volunteers, for assignment to duty, to command a division of the Ninth Army Corps.

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By order of the Secretary of War:

E. D. TOWNSEND,
Assistant Adjutant-General.