CHARLESTON, April 7, 1864.

(Received 11. 55 a. m.)

Major General JULIUS STAHEL,

Chief of Cavalry:

I will want 800 horses to mount my cavalry.

Respectfully,

GEORGE CROOK,

Brigadier-General.

GENERAL ORDERS,
WAR DEPT., ADJT. GENERAL'S OFFICE, Numbers 155. Washington, April 8, 1864.

The General-in-Chief announces the following-named officers as composing his staff in the field:

Brigadier General John A. Rawlins, chief of staff.

Lieutenant Colonel T. S. Bowers, assistant adjutant-general.

Lieutenant Colonel C. B. Comstock, senior aide-de-camp.

Lieutenant Colonel O. E. Babcock, aide-de-camp.

Lieutenant Colonel F. T. Dent, aide-de-camp.

Lieutenant Colonel Horace Porter, aide-de-camp.

Lieutenant Colonel W. L. Duff, assistant inspector-general.

Lieutenant Colonel W. R. Rowley, secretary.

Lieutenant Colonel Adam Badeau, secretary.

Captain E. S. Parker, assistant adjutant-general.

Captain George K. Leet, assistant adjutant-general, in charge of office at Washington.

Captain P. T. Hudson, aide-de-camp.

Captain H. W. Janes, assistant quartermaster, on special duty at headquarters.

First Lieutenant W. M. Dunn, jr., Eighty-third Indiana Volunteers, acting aide-de-camp.

By command of Lieutenant-General Grant.

E. D. TOWNSEND,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

CULPEPER COURT-HOUSE,

April 8, 1864-8 p. m. (Received 9. 30 p. m.)

Major General A. E. BURNSIDE,

Washington, D. C.:

Artillery and transportation will be furnished you from Washington, and will be sent from there to your corps in the field. You need not look after Third Division for the present. I have written to you, directing my letter to Annapolis. I will be in Annapolis about the middle of next week.

U. S. GRANT,

Lieutenant-General.

WASHINGTON, April 8, 1864-11. 30 a. m.

Lieutenant-General GRANT,

Culpeper, Va.:

General Patrick has here for publication an order that all sutlers leave the Army of the Potomac by the 16th. Will not this give