HDQRS. U. S. TROOPS AT YORKTOWN AND GLOUCESTER Pr.,
Yorktown, Va., April 29, 1864.

Brigadier General A. H. TERRY,

Commanding Tenth Army Corps, Gloucester Point, Va.:

GENERAL: I am instructed by the major- general commanding to direct you to be in readiness to send a brigade to West Point to- morrow, the 30th instant. The major- general also directs that if you have an engineer company they must also be ready to move with the brigade to repair the landing at that place. You will have the command furnished with eight days' rations. The quartermaster's department will furnish the necessary transportation.

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

CAMPBELL TUCKER,

First Lieutenant and Aide- de- Camp.

HDQRS. U. S. TROOPS AT YORKTOWN AND GLOUCESTER Pr.,
Yorktown, Va., April 29, 1864.

Brigadier General A. H. TERRY,

Commanding Tenth Army Corps, Gloucester Point, Va.:

GENERAL: The major- general commanding directs that the brigade ordered to be in readiness to move to- morrow shall be furnished with ten days' rations instead of eight, as before directed. The major- general also directs that 200 or 300 intrenching tools be sent with the brigade. Further instructions will be sent you to- morrow. I have the honor to be, general, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

CAMPBELL TUCKER,

First Lieutenant and Aide- de- Camp.

HEADQUARTERS OF DIVISION,
Camp Hamilton, Va., April 29, 1864.

Major General B. F. BUTLER,

Commanding Department of Virginia and North Carolina:

GENERAL: In view of the approaching campaign, and more especially on account of the recent inhumanities of the enemy perpetrated upon troops of like character to those of my command, I deem it my duty to urge that these troops shall be more efficiently armed, to enable them to defend themselves and lessen their liability to capture.

There certainly ought to be no objection to arming these troops with as effective a weapon as any that are placed, in the hands of white soldiers, who are to go into battle with none of the peculiar disadvantages to which my men will be subject. The present arms of several regiments in the division are inferior in kind and manufacture. The Springfield rifled musket of the Bridesburg manufacture is an unreliable gun. The contract Enfield rifle is also unreliable, and one regiment is armed with the old Harper's Ferry smooth- bore. Now, these arms will, perhaps, and were for troops who will be well cared for if they fall into his hands, but to troops who cannot afford