GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 207. 
WAR DEPARTMENT, 
Adjutant General’s Office, 
Washington, December 17, 1862. 
By direction of the President, Major General R. C. Schenck is 
appointed to the command of the Middle Department, and the Eighth 
Army Corps; Headquarters, Baltimore. 
By order of the Secretary of War : 
E. D. TOWNSEND, 
Assistant Adjutant General.