GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 178. 
WAR DEPARTMENT, 
Adjutant General’s Office, 
Washington, April 23, 1864. 
I ..Major General F. P. Blair, jr., is assigned to the command of 
the 17th Army Corps. 
II..Captain Andrew J. Alexander, 3d Regiment U. S. Cavalry, 
is assigned as Assistant Adjutant General of the 17th Army Corps, with 
the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, under the 10th section of the act 
approved July 17, 1862. 
By order of the President of the United States : 
E. D. TOWNSEND, 
Assistant Adjutant General. 
Official : 
Assistant Adjutant General.