GENERAL ORDERS, ) WAR DEPARTMENT,

\ Adjutant General's Office,

No. 214. ) Washington, July 10, 1863.

By direction of the President of the United States, Major General E. 0. C. ORD is appointed to the command of the Thirteenth Axmy Corps, in place of Major General John A. McClernand, relieved, to

date from .luiio 18, 1863.

By order of the Secretary of War:

E. D. TOWNSEND,

A ss i stu u t A dj i< tant Ge n end.