1864/04/14 SPECIAL FIELD ORDERS, No. 105

UNION CORRESPONDENCE, ORDERS, AND RETURNS RELATING TO OPERATIONS IN KENTUCKY, SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA, TENNESSEE, MISSISSIPPI, ALABAMA, AND NORTH GEORGIA FROM MARCH 1, 1864, TO APRIL 30, 1864.--#15

IV. It having been ordered that the Eleventh and Twelfth Army Corps be consolidated to form the Twentieth Army Corps, the following is announced as the organization of the latter, Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker commanding:

First Brigade, Brig. Gen. W. T. Ward commanding: Seventieth Indiana Infantry, Seventy-ninth Ohio Infantry, One hundred and second Illinois Infantry, One hundred and fifth Illinois Infantry, One hundred and twenty-ninth Illinois Infantry.

Second Brigade: Twenty-second Wisconsin Infantry Nineteenth Michigan Infantry, Thirty-third Indiana Infantry, Eighty-fifth Indiana Infantry, Fifth Connecticut Infantry.

Third Brigade: One hundred and thirty-sixth New York Infantry, Fifty-fifth Ohio Infantry, Seventy-third Ohio Infantry, Thirty-third Massachusetts Infantry, Twenty-sixth Wisconsin Infantry.

First Brigade, Brig. Gen. Joseph F. Knipe commanding: One hundred and forty-first New York Infantry, Twentieth Connecticut Infantry, One hundred and twenty-third New York Infantry, Third Maryland Infantry, Forty-sixth Pennsylvania Infantry.

Second Brigade, Brig. Gen. Thomas H. Ruger commanding: Second Massachusetts Infantry, Third Wisconsin Infantry, Thirteenth New Jersey Infantry, Twenty-seventh Indiana Infantry, One hundred and seventh New York Infantry, One hundred and fiftieth New York Infantry.

Third Brigade, Brig. Gen. H. Tyndale commanding: Eighty-second Ohio Infantry, Sixty-first Ohio Infantry, Forty-fifth New York Infantry, One hundred and forty-third New York Infantry, Eighty-second Illinois Infantry, One hundred and first Illinois Infantry.

First Brigade: Fifth Ohio Infantry, Seventh Ohio Infantry, Twenty-ninth Ohio Infantry, Sixty-sixth Ohio Infantry, Twenty-eighth Pennsylvania Infantry, One hundred and forty-seventh Pennsylvania Infantry.

Second Brigade: Twenty-seventh Pennsylvania Infantry, Seventy-third Pennsylvania Infantry, Thirty-third New Jersey Infantry, One hundred and nineteenth New York Infantry, One hundred and thirty-fourth New York Infantry, One hundred and fifty-fourth New York Infantry, One hundred and ninth Pennsylvania Infantry.

Third Brigade: Sixtieth New York Infantry, Seventy-eighth New York Infantry, One hundred and second New York Infantry, One hundred and thirty-seventh New York Infantry, One hundred and forty-ninth New York Infantry, Twenty-ninth Pennsylvania Infantry, One hundred and eleventh Pennsylvania Infantry.

First Brigade, Brig. Gen. R. S. Granger commanding: Thirteenth Wisconsin Infantry, Eighteenth Michigan Infantry, Seventy-third Indiana Infantry, One hundred and second Ohio Infantry, Tenth Tennessee Infantry.

The following-named regiments of the Fourth Division, Twentieth Army Corps, are not assigned to brigades: Fifty-eighth New York Infantry, Sixty-eighth New York Infantry, Seventy-fifth Pennsylvania Infantry, One hundred and fifteenth Ohio Infantry, Twenty-third Missouri Infantry, Eighty-third Illinois Infantry, Seventy-first Ohio Infantry, One hundred and sixth Ohio Infantry, Thirty-first Wisconsin Infantry.

Officers assigned to the command of divisions will report immediately to the corps commander. Officers assigned to the command of brigades will report immediately to the division commanders. Commanding officers of the several regiments enumerated will report to their respective brigade commanders herein designated. Commanding officers of the several regiments enumerated will report direct to their respective division commanders herein designated.

The following assignment of staff officers is hereby made, to take effect upon the completion of the business connected with their late positions.:

Lieut. Col. C. W. Asmussen, assistant inspector-general Eleventh Army Corps, assigned to the Twentieth Army Corps as assistant inspector-general.

Lieut. Col. George W. Balloch, commissary of subsistence Eleventh Army Corps, assigned to the Twentieth Army Corps as commissary of subsistence.

Lieut. Col. Hiram Hayes, quartermaster Eleventh Army Corps, transferred to the Fourth Army Corps, vice Ransom, detached.

Lieut. Col. T. A. Meysenburg, assistant adjutant-general Eleventh Army Corps, is relieved from duty in this department, and will report by letter for orders to the Adjutant-General U.S. Army.

Brig. Gen. A. von Steinwehr is hereby relieved from duty with the Twentieth Army Corps and assigned to command of the Third Brigade, First Division, Fourteenth Army Corps.