WASHINGTON CITY, D.C., April 23, 1864.
Hon. E.M. STANTON,
Secretary of War:
I respectfully request to withdraw my resignation as major-general of the United States Volunteers, tendered on the 12th day of January, 1864.
Respectfully,
FRANK P. BLAIR.
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 Seventeenth Army Corps.
II. Captain Andrew J. Alexander, Third Regiment United States Cavalry, is assigned as assistant adjutant-general of the Seventeenth Army Corps, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel, under the tenth section of the act approved July 17, 1862.
By order of the President of the United States: