WASHINGTON, March 8. – The President’s
war order No. 2, has ordered the army of the Potomac to be divided into
Corps D’arme, commanded as follows:
1st Corps consisting of the four divisions commanded by
McDowell.
2d. Of three divisions commanded by Gen. Sherman.
3d. Of three divisions commanded by Gen. Heintzelman.
4th. Of three divisions commanded by Brig. Gen. Keys.
5th. Banks and Shields’ divisions. The latter
and Sanders’ to be commanded by Gen. Banks.
Capt Bell, of the 3d Pennsylvania Cavalry has been promoted
to Major of the 3d Illinois Cavalry, in Halleck’s department.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye,
Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 15, 1862, p. 4
