_Washington, April 23, 1864_.
I. Major-General F.P. Blair, jr., is assigned to the command of the
Seventeenth Army Corps.
II. Captain Andrew J. Alexander, Third Regiment United States Cavalry,
is assigned as assistant adjutant-general of the Seventeenth Army Corps,
with the rank of lieutenant-colonel, under the tenth section of the act
approved July 17, 1862.
By order of the President of the United States: