Wednesday, April 20th.
Received an order detailing Col. James L. Bates, 12th Mass., Capt. C. A. Watkins, 76th New York, and myself, as a Board to examine enlisted men of the Fifth Corps who are recommended for admission to the Military School at Philadelphia, whence, after a brief attendance, so it is said, they are to be sent before Gen. Casey’s Board at Washington for examination as to fitness for commissions in the negro regiments.
