5. The First Heavy Artillery (Eleventh Vermont Volunteers) will report for temporary duty to Brigadier General J. H. Martindale, military governor of Washington, D. C.

6. The Seventeenth New York and Eleventh Massachusetts Batteries, attached to the Pennsylvania Reserve Corps, will report temporarily, to Brigadier General R. O. Tyler, commanding artillery, Defenses south of the Potomac.

By command of Major-General Heintzelman:

LEAVITT HUNT,

Major and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

[25.]

NEW YORK, April 21, 1863.

Brigadier General A. A. HUMPHREYS,

Fifth Corps, Army of the Potomac, Falmouth, Va.:

GENERAL: Your letter of the 13th instant is received. It will afford me pleasure to make the corrections your letter suggests in the full and final report I am now preparing. My impression has been that your command was not in condition to be thrown into action until near the close of the 18th, if then; but I never attributed any blame to you or your troops for it, regarding it as the necessary result of circumstances beyond your control. I do not now see that any censure upon yourself could be implied from the paragraph you quote. None was intended.

I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

GEO. B. McCLELLAN,

Major-General, U. S. Army.

[19.]

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF WASHINGTON, Numbers 64.
April 21, 1863.

* * * * *

6. The One hundred and fifty-second New York Volunteers will embark at once from foot of Sixth street, Washington, D. C., for Fortress Monroe, and will report to Major General John A. Dix. One sergeant and ten men will remain as a guard of its Government property until it can be properly disposed of.

* * * * *

By command of Major-General Heintzelman:

CARROLL H. POTTER,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

[25.]

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY,
ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE, Numbers 186.
Washington, April 24, 1863.

Brigadier General J. H. Van Alen, U. S. Volunteers, will report to the commanding general Army of the Potomac for assignment to duty.

By command of Major-General Halleck:

E. D. TOWNSEND,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

[18.]

GENERAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS FIRST ARMY CORPS, Numbers 51.
April 24, 1863.

The commanding general takes occasion to thank the Twenty-fourth Michigan and Fourteenth Brooklyn Regiments, under Colonels Morrow

64 R R - VOL LI, PT I