Joseph. Hooker to Henry W. Halleck, February 3, 1863

February 3, 1863. Maj. Gen. H. W. HALLECK, General-in-Chief :

Before the departure of the Ninth Corps, permit me to recommend that General Smith be assigned by the President to command it, and that General Sedgwick be assigned to the command of the Sixth Corps. General Sedgwick is now on duty with the Ninth without assignment. The consequence of this, I think, will be good.

JOSEPH HOOKER, Major-General, Commanding.

? February 4, 1863. Major-General HOOKER: oaG

Major-General Burnside is the permanent commander of the Ninth

H. W. HALLECK, General-in-Chief.

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Commanding, cc., near Fredericksburg, Va.:

In reply to the application of Lord Huntington and Colonel Leslie, of England, for permission to enter our lines, I am instructed by the Commander-in-Chief of the United States Army as follows:

Foreign officers will not be permitted to pass our lines without a pass from the War

Department, and such passes are only given on application of the minister or diplomatic agent who represents their Government.

Your application has been referred to the Commander-in-Chief.

Your obedient servant,