Streight and his regiment might be transferred to your department, and to inform you in reply that he cannot consistently grant your request at present.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

ED. R. S. CANBY,

Brigadier-General and Assistant Adjutant-General.

CULPEPER COURT-HOUSE, April 6, 1864.

(Received 8. 30 p. m.)

Major-General HALLECK:

If General Burnside is in Washington please send him here. If he is not in Washington, do you know whether he will be there within a day or two?

U. S. GRANT.

CULPEPER COURT-HOUSE, April 6, 1864.

(Received 10. 10 p. m.)

Major-General HALLECK:

Is General Wilson to come here? If he can be spared from the Cavalry Bureau he is much wanted to command a cavalry division. I would like to know the decision of the Secretary of War in this matter as soon as possible, so that the cavalry command can be arranged.

U. S. GRANT,

Lieutenant-General.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, Numbers 16. April 6, 1864.

The following assignments to duty fo officers of the Subsistence Department are announced. No changes will be made in these assignments except upon orders issued or approved at these headquarters:

SUBSISTENCE DEPARTMENT.

Second Corps.

Lieutenant Colonel Joseph S. Smith, chief commissary of subsistence.

First Division, Captain A. C. Voris, commissary of subsistence.

First Brigade, Captain R. W. Thompson, jr., commissary of subsistence.

Second Brigade, Captain C. S. Langdon, commissary of subsistence.

Third Brigade, Captain L. L. Rose, commissary of subsistence.

Fourth Brigade, Captain G. P. Burnham, commissary of subsistence.

Second Division, Captain Thomas S. Crombarger, commissary of subsistence.

First Brigade, Captain Frederick W. Owen, commissary of subsistence.

Second Brigade, Captain George B. Corkhill, commissary of subsistence.