Order

Major-General Humphreys to Chas. A. Whittier, March 22, 1865

ORDERS. HEADQUARTERS SECOND ARMY CORPS,

This corps will be reviewed to-morrow at 2.30 p. m. ;

1. The Second Division will reach the ground at 12.30 o’clock, and in crossing the Vaughan road, railroad, and approaching the review ground will move so as not to interfere with the First and Thire Divisions moving to their positions.

2. The First and Third Divisions will reach the ground at 1.30 o’clock, approaching in such manner as not to interfere with each other or with the Second Division.

3. The artillery will reach the ground at 1 o’clock.

4, The formation will be line of battalions in mass, division front, brigade commanders to be opposite the right of their brigade. The troops will pass in review, closed in mass, at quick time, mounted officers only saluting.

5. The distance between battalions in line will be twenty-two paces except when a battalion is so large as to require more than that space to change direction by the flank.

6. Division commanders are requested to cause battalion commanders to see that their companies are sized march before the battalion is formed.

7. Upon reaching a point 100 yards on the right of the reviewing officer (the point will be marked by a stake) the battalions leaving the field will move at double-quick. Division commanders will send a staff officer to the point indicated to see that the order is carried out at the proper time.

8. After passing the reviewing officer staff officers of the division and brigade commanders will form successively on the right of the corps Staff; orderlies and escorts in line, in rear of the staffs to which they are attached.

9. The troops will appear in heavy marching order.

10. Troops of the Fifth Corps will occupy the line during the review.

By command of Major-General Humphreys:

CHAS. A. WHITTIER,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
HEADQUARTERS FirtH ARMY CoRPs,
March 22, 1865. (Received 9.45 a. m.)
Brevet Major-General WEBB,
Chief of Staff:
I have to report ail quiet in my front during yesterday and last
night. Three deserters from Fourth North Carolina Cavalry were
Editor's Notes
From: Operations in Northern Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, Pt. 1. Summary: Major-General Humphreys issues detailed orders for the Second Army Corps' coordinated troop movements and formation during a review scheduled for March 23, 1865.
Sources
The War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 46, Part 1 View original source ↗