GENERAL ORDERS No

GENERAL ORDERS No. 1.

HDQRS. SECOND DIV., 25TH ARMY CORPS,
In the Field, Va., December 4, 1864.

This command will hereafter be known as the Second Division, Twenty-fifth Army Corps. The following-named regiments will constitute the First Brigade, which will be known as the First Brigade, Second Division, Twenty-fifth Army Corps, viz: Seventh U.S. Colored Troops, One hundred and sixteenth U.S. Colored Troops, One hundred and ninth U.S. Colored Troops. The following-named regiments will constitute the Second Brigade, which will be known as the Second Brigade, Second Division, Twenty-fifth Army Corps, viz: Forty-fifth U.S. Colored Troops, Eighth U.S. Colored Troops, One hundred and twenty-seventh U.S. Colored Troops. The following-named regiments will constitute the Third Brigade, which will be denominated the Third Brigade, Second Division, Twenty-fifth Army Corps, viz: Twenty eighth U. S. Colored Troops, Twenty-ninth U.S. Colored Troops, Thirty-first U S. Colored Troops, One hundred and seventeenth U.S. Colored Troops.

By command of Brig. Gen. William Birney:

JAMES B. WEST,

Lieutenant, Aide-de-Camp and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.