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Major-General BUTLER,

Commanding, &c.:

CITY POINT, VA., July 15, 1864.

If you have a regiment of 100-days' men out of the line that can possibly be spared I wish you would send it to City Point to aid in guard duty over public stores. There is but one small regiment here for that duty, and it is not sufficient with the extent of wharf and quantity of stores.

U. S. GRANT,
Lieutenant-General.

Lieutenant-General GRANT:

JULY 15, 1864—6,15 p. m.

A regiment will be sent as desired to-morrow.

It is now certain that

Lee is in Petersburg. Pickett is still in my front. Will send to-day's Richmond papers.

BENJ. F. BUTLER,

Major-General.

Capt. E. V. SUMNER,

Special Inspector of Cavalry:

HEADQUARTERS,

In the Field, July 15, 1864.

CAPTAIN: I have examined with care the papers you have submitted to me, to wit, Special Orders, No. 227, War Department, current series, amending Special Orders, No. 225, by which it seems you are appointed special inspector of cavalry. The chief inspector of cavalry in this department detailed on my staff for that duty is Major Ludlow. I have also examined General Orders, No. 237 [War Department, 1863], instructions intended to promote the efficiency of the cavalry service. If you will do me the favor I will examine any other papers which you may choose to submit to me. So far as I can ascertain from this order and from these papers, your duties here in this department will be those of a special and assistant inspector of cavalry. You will, therefore, make your inspections according to the instructions given you, contained in these written instructions and any further instructions you may receive through my inspector-general. I understood in conversation that you supposed it was your duty to forward your reports directly to Washington. I entertain different views of your duties, but as it is a matter of form only, I am not inclined to interfere with your forwarding special reports, provided duplicates are also sent to my inspector-general's office. I feel bound to say to you that if the Cavalry Bureau at Washington had chosen to examine my inspectorgeneral's reports up to the last month they would have found every item of intelligence there which, so far as I can learn, you are required to give, saving always your own opinions upon the efficiency and propriety of action of my cavalry officers, and I know that the opinion which you will give of your own, being those of a young cavalry officer of a cavalry three years' standing, will be modestly and properly expressed. Any further instructions I can give you or any other aid that I can furnish, which, in your judgment, will promote the efficiency of the cavalry of this department, will be as promptly furnished as is this note, as you will do me the favor to remember that I have but this

moment received the order under which you are acting. I would sug gest to you, however, that the Twelfth New York Cavalry, at New Berne, N. C., is not in as satisfactory a condition as I could wish, and perhaps, as the division of cavalry at this point will leave very shortly upon a raid, not to return before the end of the month, you will find leisure to examine into the condition of the cavalry forces in North Carolina. I desire also to call your special attention to the insufficiency of arms with which my cavalry is furnished, and if this bureau can have any effect in promoting the efficiency of the cavalry it can do more in this direction than any other, and in answering my requisitions for horses, which have been before them for three months without any notice.

With sentiments of strong personal regard, I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

BENJ. F. BUTLER.

GENERAL ORDERS, Į

No. 80.

HDQRS. DEPT. OF VA. AND N. C.,
In the Field, Va., July 15, 1864.

In honor of the memory of some of the gallant dead of this army, who have fallen in this campaign, the redoubts and batteries on the line will hereafter be known as follows:

Redoubt on Spring Hill is named Redoubt Converse, after Maj. Joseph H. Converse, Eleventh Connecticut Volunteers, assistant inspector-general on General Martindale's staff.

Redoubt on Cobb's Hill near signal tower is named Redoubt Zabriskie, after Col. Abram Zabriskie, Ninth New Jersey Volunteers.

Battery No. 8 is named Battery Burpee, after Lieut. Col. T. F. Burpee, Twenty-first Connecticut Volunteers.

The square redoubt in the rear of the line between Batteries Nos. 8 and 7, is named Redoubt Wead, after Col. F. F. Wead, Ninety-eighth New York Volunteers.

Battery No. 7 is named Battery Walker, after Maj. William A. Walker, Twenty-seventh Massachusetts Volunteers.

Battery No. 6 is named Battery Pruyn, after Maj. Charles E. Pruyn, One hundred and eighteenth New York Volunteers.

The square redoubt in front of Battery No. 6 is named Redoubt Dutton, after Col. A. H. Dutton, Twenty-first Connecticut Volunteers.

Battery No. 5 is named Battery England, after Lieut. Col. T. L. England, Eighty-ninth New York Volunteers.

Battery No. 4 is named Battery Marshall, after Lieut. Col. George E. Marshall, Fortieth Massachusetts Volunteers.

Battery No. 3 is named Battery Anderson, after Lieut. Col. Hiram Anderson, jr., Ninety-second New York Volunteers.

The redoubt in front of Battery No. 3 is named Redoubt McConihe, after Col. John McConihe, One hundred and sixty-ninth New York Volunteers.

Battery No. 2 is named Battery Perry, after Lieut. Col. Edgar Perry, One hundred and thirty-ninth New York Volunteers.

Battery No. 1 is named Redoubt Drake, after Col. J. C. Drake, One hundred and twelfth New York Volunteers.

The redoubt in front of Battery No. 1 is named Redoubt Carpenter, after Lieut. Col. E. F. Carpenter, One hundred and twelfth New York Volunteers.

The battery in rear of the Curtis house, heretofore known as the "Water Battery," is named Battery Spofford, after Lieut. Col. W. P. Spofford, Eleventh Maine Volunteers.

The battery at Crow's Nest is named Battery Sawyer, after Maj. Charles W. Sawyer, Fourth New Hampshire Volunteers.

The 100-pounder Parrott battery at the Curtis house is named Battery Parsons, after First Lieut. A. K. Parsons, Fourth Vermont Volunteers, aide-de-camp on General W. T. H. Brooks' staff.

The 10-inch mortar battery in front of the Curtis house is named Battery Wilcox, after Capt. E. R. Wilcox, Twenty-seventh Massachusetts Volunteers, acting assistant adjutant-general on General Stannard's staff.

By command of Maj. Gen. B. F. Butler:

R. S. DAVIS.

Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.

Capt. GEORGE T. BALCH,

HEADQUARTERS SIEGE TRAIN, Broadway Landing, Va., July 15, 1864.

Assistant to Chief of Ordnance:

CAPTAIN: Please forward to Captain Hatfield, with all possible dispatch, 20,000 rounds of Coehorn mortar ammunition and 5,000 percussion fuses for 30-pounder Parrott, for use, instead of the time-fuses in certain batteries. To be able to change a time to a percussion shell, will be of great advantage in saving transportation; also 3,000 wooden fuses for 8-inch mortars. I expect to need a large supply of ammunition in a very few days. Please hurry forward my supplies for 30pounder Parrott; 44-inch gun; 8-inch mortar; 10-inch mortar; and Coehorn mortar; and 8-inch siege howitzer. All my train, except the 100pounder Parrotts, may be considered about opening fire. My expenditures now are often 500 rounds a day with not quite half my guns yet in position.

Your obedient servant,

Colonel ALLCOCK,

HENRY L. ABBOT, Colonel First Connecticut Artillery, Commanding.

HEADQUARTERS SIEGE TRAIN,

Broadway Landing, July 15, 1864-10.30 a. m.

Commanding Fourth New York Heavy Artillery:

(Care of Brigadier-General Hunt, Hdqrs. Army of the Potomac.) Please send a company of your regiment without delay to my siege train landing (Broadway), near pontoon bridge on Appomattox River, to report to Captain Hatfield, my ordnance officer, for duty in unload ing the train and ammunition.

HENRY L. ABBOT,

Colonel First Connecticut Artillery, Commanding.

JULY 15, 1864–1.45 p. m.

Col. H. L. ABBOT,

Commanding Siege Train, Broadway Landing:

Major Duane wishes to know if you cannot place your mortars yourself. I have just ordered Colonel Allcock to detail two officers to

superintend to-night the construction of batteries for heavy guns under the direction of Captain Mendell. Your telegram to Colonel A[llcock] has been sent him.

General W. T. H. BROOKS,

Tenth Corps:

HENRY J. HUNT,

Brigadier-General.

WASHINGTON, July 15, 1864.

Your resignation has been accepted.* Notice of acceptance was sent to you yesterday by mail.

JAS. A. HARDIE,

Colonel and Inspector-General U. S. Army.

HEADQUARTERS TENTH ARMY CORPS,
In the Field, Hatcher's, Va., July 15, 1864.

Brig. Gen. O. S. FERRY,
Commanding Third Division:

GENERAL: The brigadier general commanding directs that you send eight companies of the One hundred and forty-eighth Regiment Ohio National Guard, stationed at Bermuda Hundred, to City Point, Va., to report to Lieutenant-General Grant's chief of staff. Two companies of the regiment will remain at Bermuda Landing as a garrison. As the battalion must be ready to move at daylight to-morrow morning, the order for the movement should be sent direct to the colonel of the regiment. I am also instructed to direct you to move all the 100-days' regiments encamped near the line of intrenchments on the left to the · right of Battery No. 8, so as to make room for some colored troops that have been ordered to encamp near the line on the left, between Battery No. 8 and the Appomattox. The colored troops will not be subject to detail either for fatigue or picket duty.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

R. H. JACKSON, Lieutenant-Colonel and Assistant Inspector-General.

HDQRS. DEPT. OF VIRGINIA AND NORTH CAROLINA,
In the Field, July 15, 1864—8 p. m.

General KAUTZ,

Jones' Neck:

General Butler desires to see you here as soon as possible.

G. WEITZEL,
Brigadier-General.

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*By Special Orders, No. 228, July 15, 1864, from War Department, Adjutant-General's Office, to take effect July 14, 1864.

HEADQUARTERS CAVALRY DIVISION,
Near Jones' Landing, Va., July 15, 1864.

Colonel WEST,
Commanding First Brigade:

COLONEL: The general commanding directs that you hold your command in readiness to march at a moment's notice, provided with three days' rations and sixty rounds of ammunition per man.

I have the honor, colonel, to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant, M. J. ASCH, Captain and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

(Same to Col. S. P. Spear, commanding Second Brigade.)

HEADQUARTERS U. S. FORCES,

Fort Powhatan, Va.. July 15, 1864.

Brig. Gen. G. WEITZEL, Chief of Staff:

GENERAL: Your telegram of July 14 received at 7 a. m. this day. I put every available man on engineer fatigue till I received General Orders, No. 6, from division headquarters, requiring me to drill in school of soldier and company at least three hours per day and one hour additional in battalion drill. I soon after received from brigade headquarters a time table for these drills, dividing them between the a. m. and p. m. This I soon got modified on application to General Marston, so as to allow me to do fatigue duty a. m. and all the drilling p. m. Since then I have been furnishing in the a. m. all the men for engineer fatigue requested by Lieutenant Baldwin.

I am, general, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
G. S. INNIS,

Colonel 133d Regiment Ohio National Guard, Commanding Post.

HDQRS. DEPT. OF VIRGINIA AND NORTH CAROLINA,
In the Field, July 15, 1864-11.30 a. m.

Colonel INNIS, Fort Powhatan :

The general commanding directs that you suspend all drills at your post until all the engineering operations are complete. You will put every man not on picket or other military duty on fatigue daily, to work at least eight hours per day until the work is finished. The general commanding further directs that you notify General Marston of this order. The work must be finished at once for the sake of General Grant's whole army.

G. WEITZEL,
Brigadier-General.

HDQRS. DEPT. OF VIRGINIA AND NORTH CAROLINA,
In the Field, July 15, 1864.

Lieutenant BALDWIN, Fort Powhatan:

Colonel Innis has been directed to put every available man on engineer fatigue duty, to work at least eight hours daily. Drills are sus18 R. R-VOL XL, PT III

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