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STONY MOUNTAIN, April 25, 1864-6 p.m.
Captain MERRILL,
Chief Signal Officer:
A camp, think about a brigade, disappeared this p.m. south 15 degrees west from this point, and 4 or 5 miles back from the river. All quiet.
TAYLOR.
HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY,
Culpeper, Va., April 25, 1864.General SHERIDAN:
The general has asked twice to have the Eighth Illinois Cavalry ordered here, but has been answered both times that it cannot be spared from Washington, hence it has not been ordered to you.
JNO. A. RAWLINS,
Brigadier-General, Chief of Staff.
GENERAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS CAVALRY CORPS, ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, Numbers 18.
April 25, 1864.The following-named officers are announced as composing the staff of the major-general commanding the corps. They will be obeyed and respected accordingly:
Inspector-general's department: Lieutenant Colonel James W. Forsyth, assistant inspector-general and chief of staff; Captain F. C. Newhall, Sixth Pennsylvania Cavalry, acting assistant inspector-general.
Adjutant-general's department; Lieutenant Colonel C. Kingsbury, jr., assistant adjutant-general; Captain E. B. Parsons, assistant adjutant-general.
Quartermaster's department: Lieutenant Colonel J. B. Howard, chief quartermaster.
Commissary department: Lieutenant Colonel G. H. Woods, chief commissary of subsistence.
Medical department: Surg. R. W. Pease, medical director; Asst. Surg. G. M. McGill, medical inspector.
Captain J. M. Robertson, Second U. S. Artillery, chief of artillery.
Lieutenant Colonel C. R. Smith, Sixth Pennsylvania Cavalry, provost-marshal.
Captain L. Walker, Fifth U. S. Cavalry, commissary of musters.
First Lieutenant Myron Hickey, Fifth Michigan-Cavalry, ambulance officer.
Aides-de-camp: Captain T. W. C. Moore, aide-de-camp; Captain M. V. Sheridan, aide-de-camp; Captain P. Lacy Goddard, Eighth Pennsylvania Cavalry, acting aide-de-camp; First Lieutenant G. Irvine Whitehead, Sixth Pennsylvania Cavalry, acting aide-de-camp.
By command of Major-General Sheridan:
C. KINGSBURY, JR.,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
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