November 25, 1864
Maj. Gen. Andrew A. Humphreys, USA, is assigned to the temporary command of the 2nd US Army Corps, the Richmond, VA, Campaign.
Maj. Gen. Winfield S. Hancock, USA, is granted a 20 day leave of absence from command of the 2nd US Army Corps, the Richmond, VA, Campaign.
Special Orders No. 136 orders the USCT regiments of the Ninth Corps Army of the Potomac to transfer to the Army of the James, and Colonel Potter’s Provisional Brigade of the Army of the James to transfer to the Army of the Potomac, the Richmond, VA, Campaign. With Butler’s Army of the James containing all of the Black regiments in front of Petersburg and Richmond, a new all-Black Twenty-Fifth Corps would be formed in early December 1864.
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Mentions of This Date at The Siege of Petersburg Online:
- NP: November 25, 1864 Richmond Examiner: Disappearing Mail in Pickett’s Division
- NP: December 23, 1864 The Bedford Inquirer: 110th PA, Thanksgiving at Fort Sedgwick, November, 1864
- NP: December 23, 1864 The Bedford Inquirer: 55th PA, Thanksgiving at Fort Burnham, November, 1864
- NP: August 11, 1902 New Orleans Times-Picayune: Donaldsonville Cannoniers at the Siege of Petersburg, Part 9
- OR XLII P1 #362: Reports of Major General Bushrod R. Johnson, commanding Johnson/DNCSV, Aug 2-Dec 31, 1864