GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 249. 
AVAR DEPARTMENT, 
adjutant general’s office, 
Washington, August BO, 1864. 
Captain Ely S. Parker, Assistant Adjutant General, U. S. Vol- 
unteers, is announced as Private Secretary on the staff of Lieuten- 
ant-General Grant, with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, vice W. 
R. Rowi.ey, resigned. 
By order of the Secretary of War: 
E. 1). TOWNSEND, 
Assistant Adjutant General. 
Official : 
Assistant Adjutant General.