Order

John Sedgwick to C. A. Whittier, February 26, 1863

GENERAL ORDERS, } HEADQUARTERS SIXTH ARMY CORPS,

No. 7. February 26, 1863.

The following named officers are announced on the staff of the general commanding the corps:

staff; Col. C. H. Tompkins, First Rhode Island Artillery, chief of artillery ; Lieut. Col. J. Ford Kent, assistant inspector-general; Lieut. Col. C. W. Tolles, chief quartermaster; Capt. J. K. Scofield, acting chief commissary of subsistence; Surg. Charles O’Leary, U. S. Volunteers, medical director; Surg. E. B. Dalton, Thirty-sixth New York Volunteers, medical inspector ; Maj. T. W. Hyde, Seventh Maine Volunteers, provost-marshal; Capt. Church Howe, Fifteenth Massachusetts Volunteers, aide-de-camp; Capt. C. A. Whittier, Twentieth Massachusetts Volunteers, aide-de-camp; Capt. H. C. Pratt, Thirty-eighth New York Volunteers, acting aide-de-camp.

By command of Major-General Sedgwick :

C. A. WHITTIER,
Captain and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.
Washington, D. C., February 27, 1863.
Major-General HOOKER, Army of the Potomac:
The authority given to you to grant leaves of absence cannot be delegated by you to commanders of corps. Leaves not signed by your
orders are null,
Editor's Notes
From: Operations in N. Virginia, W. Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Pt. 1. Summary: Major-General Sedgwick announces his Sixth Army Corps staff appointments and instructs Major-General Hooker that leave of absence authority cannot be delegated below his command during the Civil War.
Sources
The War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 25, Part 1 View original source ↗