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Rh Acting Engineer-Officer William O. Slade—for their valuable services in conveying orders and superintending their execution.

I take this occasion to mention the energy displayed by my Chief Quartermaster, Major A. W. Vick, and his assistants, in collecting transportation for the division when in Pennsylvania, the division having a limited supply when it crossed the Potomac; also to Major Hungerford, Chief Commissary of Subsistence, and his assistants for their activity in procuring supplies.

, Major-General. Captain, A. A.-General Third Corps, A. N. V.

There are but few incidents of the late war which have given rise to more conflicting accounts than the unfortunate occurrence which deprived the Army of Northern Virginia of its greatest corps commander. A number of such accounts have appeared in print, in books as well as in a more fleeting form, and no two of them agree as to the circumstances attending the wounding of General Jackson.

A book entitled Keel and Saddle, and written by General Revere, who served in the Army of the Potomac under Hooker, appeared several years since, in which is contained a very remarkable story about General Jackson, in connection with the subject of astrology and his being wounded at Chancellorsville. In this book, General Revere, who seems to have belonged at one time to the United States navy, gives his adventures by sea and land in a variety of characters. Having described his participation in some military operations in the State of Michoacan in Mexico, in the latter part of February, 1852, he says: "The spring of 1852 was now at hand, and the time propitious for a change to a more northern climate, which for various reasons I was desirous of making." He then tells of his preparations for leaving Mexico, and his departure; and continues as follows: "Arriving in due time at New Orleans, I