GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 259. 
WAR DEPARTMENT, 
Adjutant General’s Office, 
Washington, September 21, 1864. 
Major General P: H. Sheridan is assigned by the President perma- 
nently to the command of the Middle Military Division, consisting of 
the Middle Department, the Departments of Washington, of the Susque- 
hanna, and of West Virginia, to which he was temporarily assigned by 
General Orders, No 240. 
By order of the Secretary of War: 
E. D. TOWNSEND, 
Assistant Adjutant General. 
Official : 
Assistant Adjutant General.