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Hooker embarked on a reorganization of the army, doing away with Burnside's grand division system, which Hooker considered unwieldy ; he also no longer had sufficient senior officers on hand that he could trust to command multi-corps operations.

He organized the cavalry into a separate corps under the command of Brig.

Gen. George Stoneman ( who had commanded the III Corps at Fredericksburg ).

But while he concentrated the cavalry into a single organization, he dispersed his artillery battalions to the control of the infantry division commanders, removing the coordinating influence of the army's artillery chief, Brig.

Gen. Henry J.

Hunt.