GENERAL ORDERS, No. 297
WAR DEPARTMENT, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE
Washington, December 3, 1864
By direction of the President of the United States
the following changes will be made in the organization of the
Army of the James:
- The Tenth and Eighteenth Army Corps will be discontinued.
- The white infantry troops of the Tenth and Eighteenth
Army Corps now with the Army of the James will be
consolidated under the direction of the major-general
commanding the Department of Virginia and North Carolina,
and will constitute a new corps, to be called the
Twenty-fourth Corps.
- The colored troops of the Department of Virginia and
North Carolina will be organized into a new corps, to be
called the Twenty-fifth Corps.
- The present corps staff and the artillery of the
Eighteenth Corps will be transferred to the
Twenty-fourth, and the present corps staff and artillery
of the Tenth to the Twenty-fifth Corps.
- Maj. Gen. E.O.C. Ord is assigned to the command of the
Twenty-fourth Corps, and Maj. Gen. G. Weitzel to the
command of the Twenty-fifth Corps.
By order of the Secretary of War:
E.D. TOWNSEND,
Assistant Adjutant-General
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