General Orders, No. 238
War Department, Adjutant General’s Office
Washington, July 30, 1864
The following assignments are hereby made:
1. Major General O. O. HOWARD to the command of the Army and Department of the Tennessee.
2. Major General H. W. SLOCUM to the command of the 20th Army Corps, vice Major General HOOKER, who is relieved at his own request.
3. Major General D. S. STANLEY to the command of the 4th Army Corps, vice Major General HOWARD, transferred to the Army and Department of the Tennessee.
BY ORDER OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES:
E.D. TOWNSEND,
Assistant Adjutant General.