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To-day, Gen. Wm. F. Smith calls and asks that his nomination heretofore as a Major General, and his acceptance of it, by being assigned to, and taking command as a Major General, may be taken and held to be a vacation of his office as a Brigadier General
of Volunteers, so that he can again take his place in the regular army.
He would also like to have a leave of absence of as long as the service will admit.
[1] AD, DLC-Stanton Papers. General William F. Smith was in command of the Ninth Corps, Army of the Potomac, from February 4 to March 17, 1863, and his next assignment was to command of a division in the Department of the Susquehanna, which he held from June 17 to August 3, 1863.