HDQRS. CAVALRY CORPS, ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, Brig. Gen. J. H. WILSON, Commanding Third Cavalry Division: GENERAL: The major-general commanding directs that you detail one brigade of your division to relieve Colonel Devin's brigade, of the First Cavalry Division, now on picket on the left of the army. Colonel Devin's headquarters are on the plank road near Temple's house. The brigade detailed by you will march this afternoon (so that Colonel Devin can return in the morning) via Prince George Court-House and thence to Temple's house by way of the courier-line. Very respectfully, &c., JAS. W. FORSYTH, Lieutenant-Colonel and Chief of Staff. HEADQUARTERS THIRD DIVISION, CAVALRY CORPS, Col. GEORGE H. CHAPMAN, Commanding Second Brigade: July 19, 1864. COLONEL: In accordance with instructions received from Cavalry Corps headquarters, you will proceed with as little delay as possible with your brigade to the left of the army, to relieve Colonel Devin's brigade, of the First Division, Cavalry Corps, now on picket there. Colonel Devin's headquarters are on the plank road near Temple's house. The regiment of your brigade on picket at Prince George Court-House will be relieved by a regiment from General Gregg's division, and will join you as soon as relieved. You will take three days' rations and forage, and march via Prince George Court-House, thence to Temple's house by way of the courier-line. By command of Brigadier-General Wilson: Lieutenant-General GRANT: L. SIEBERT, Assistant Adjutant-General. JULY 19, 1864-9.30 a. m. Supposing it to be the settled policy of the War Department to establish recruiting rendezvous at Fortress Monroe and New Berne, I desire an alteration of detail of officers. They have detailed Colonel Draper, one of my very best officers, in charge at Fortress Monroe. Now, if they will detail Brigadier-General Wild, who is admirably fitted for it, there instead of Draper it will solve many difficulties of organization. Will you please apply for the change, Wild instead of Draper? Major-General BUTLER: Commanding, &c.: BENJ. F. BUTLER, Major-General, Commanding. CITY POINT, VA., July 19, 1864. Your communication and dispatch relative to recruiting at Fortress Monroe and New Berne received. I have telegraphed objecting to the establishment of recruiting rendezvous at either place. I don't want States to get the benefit of recruits obtained in that way; besides, the men so obtained are worth more in keeping present organizations filled. U. S. GRANT, Lieutenant-General. JULY 19, 1864–10.10 a. mn. Lieutenant-General GRANT, Commanding, &c.: The new iron-clad Tunxis left Philadelphia for Washington the 11th instant. She is said to draw only seven feet of water. She is the very boat we want here in case we get hold of the Howlett house battery, as she can go up at once through the channel and hold what we get, and also can move up and down without danger of getting on shore, and save wooden boats the danger of picket duty, and protect transports from shore batteries. If you agree with me, might not the Tunxis be applied for? Lieutenant-General GRANT: BENJ. F. BUTLER, Major-General. JULY 19, 1864-10 p. m. GENERAL: The commissioners, Jaquess and Gilmore, have returned. Were received by Davis, but the only terms were independence or fight. They go to Washington to-morrow. I send you the Richmond papers, by which you will learn that you died Saturday. Respectfully, B. F. BUTLER, Major-General, Commanding. HDQRS. DEPT. OF VIRGINIA AND NORTH CAROLINA, In the Field, July 19, 1864. Have any more of the Nineteenth Corps come up? General B. F. BUTLER: B. F. BUTLER. BERMUDA, July 19, 1864. The Forty-seventh Pennsylvania and Thirtieth Maine Regiments arrived this morning. Fifteenth Maine arrived yesterday. FULLER, Colonel. FORT POWHATAN, VA., July 19, 1864. Brigadier-General WEITZEL: Signal station is ninety-six feet high. Signal officer reports he cannot communicate with City Point. Please send ten kegs 4-inch spikes and four bales sand-bags. W. H. BALDWIN, HEADQUARTERS SIEGE TRAIN, Brig. Gen. GEORGE D. RAMSAY, Washington, D. C.: Am nearly out of Coehorn mortar ammunition. Please forward about 10,000 rounds as soon as possible. Was my letter of 15th instant received? Col. H. L. ABBOT, HENRY L. ABBOT, Colonel First Connecticut Artillery, Commanding. ORDNANCE OFFICE, WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, July 19, 1864. Comdg. First Connecticut Artillery, Bermuda Hundred, Va.: COLONEL: Your letter of the 15th instant, containing a requisition for ammunition is received. Letters of notification are to-day sent to Captain Hatfield, your ordnance officer, informing him of the amounts that have been ordered to him. Arrangements were made some time ago for collecting this ammunition at Fort Monroe; but so much of it has been diverted for other purposes that only a small portion of it has yet been received at Fort Monroe. After this week ammunition can be forwarded to you at about the following rates: 24-pounder Coehorn, 3,000 rounds per week; 8-inch mortar and siege gun, 2,600 rounds per week; 30-pounder Parrott, 3,000 rounds per week; 44-inch siege, 1,500 rounds per week. There is a plentiful supply of 10-inch siege mortarshells and of 100-pounder Parrott ammunition. Fifteen more 8-inch siege mortars and beds have been ordered to Fort Monroe to-day. Some of them will be there this week, and all of them by the end of next week. They will be sent up to you at any time on your telegraphing here for them. The fuses asked for by you will reach you by the end of this week. GEO. D. RAMSAY, Brigadier-General and Chief of Ordnance. Brigadier-General WEITZEL, Acting Chief of Staff: JULY 19, 1864. In consequence of my taking command of the corps Foster comes into command of the First Division. Is it necessary that he should remain at Deep Bottom, or can he come to the headquarters of the division, leaving his next in rank in command where he now is? ALF. H. TERRY, Brigadier-General. HDQRS. DEPT. OF VIRGINIA AND NORTH CAROLINA, General TERRY, Tenth Army Corps: In the Field, July 19, 1864. The general commanding directs that General Foster remain where he is (at Deep Bottom), and that division headquarters be moved to him. G. WEITZEL, Brigadier-General and Acting Chief of Staff. SPECIAL ORDERS, Į HEADQUARTERS TENTH ARMY CORPS, II. Brig. Gen. R. S. Foster, U. S. Volunteers, is hereby temporarily assigned to the command of the First Division, and will establish his headquarters at Deep Bottom. By order of Brig. Gen. A. H. Terry : ED. W. SMITH, Assistant Adjutant-General. GENERAL ORDERS, Į HDQRS. FIRST DIV., TENTH ARMY CORPS, No. 16. I. In accordance with instructions from corps headquarters the undersigned assumes command of the division, of which the headquarters will, until further orders, be at Deep Bottom, Va. II. All official communications from the command will be addressed to Capt. P. A. Davis, assistant adjutant-general. R. S. FOSTER, Brigadier-General. HEADQUARTERS TENTH ARMY CORPS, In the Field, Hatcher's, Va., July 19, 1864. Brig. Gen. O. S. FERRY, Commanding Third Division: GENERAL: The brigadier-general commanding directs that you keep at least one regiment encamped between Battery No. 4 and Battery No. 6. He considers it preferable that two regiments be encamped there if it can be done without too much weakening other points of the line. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, ED. W. SMITH, Assistant Adjutant-General. [JULY 19, 1864.] General MARTINDALE, Eighteenth Corps: G. WEITZEL, Brigadier-General WEITZEL: [JULY 19, 1864.] The firing is chiefly on Burnside's and Warren's front, and a little. on mine, and principally from the enemy. Nothing serious. J. H. MARTINDALE, Brigadier-General. CITY POINT, July 19, 1864-8.15 p. m. Brigadier General MARTINDALE: General Smith started for the front nearly an hour ago. E. S. PARKER, Assistant Adjutant-General. HDQRS. DEPT. OF VIRGINIA AND NORTH CAROLINA, Lieut. Col. F. H. PECK, Twelfth Connecticut Volunteers, City Point: You will disembark at Bermuda Hundred, and go into camp near there till further orders. By command of Major-General Butler: R. S. DAVIS, Assistant Adjutant-General. Maj. Gen. B. F. BUTLER, CHAMBERLAIN, POINT OF ROCKS, Comdg. Dept. of Va., and N. C., and Army of the James: GENERAL: I have just returned. The cavalry landed at the wharf to the north of Harrison's Point at 3 a. m. to-day, and scoured the country thoroughly from that point to Charles City Court-House. The infantry landed a mile and a half below Wilcox's Wharf; searched every house and barn for a distance of four miles. No rebel force was discovered, and but two rebel scouts were seen; these were chased by the cavalry but not captured. All the torpedoes were captured by Captain Fitch on Sunday last, and none have been placed in the rivers. Respectfully and sincerely, CHARLES K. GRAHAM, Brigadier-General. [Indorsement.] Lieutenant-General GRANT: I have the honor to forward Brigadier-General Graham's report of an expedition to Wilcox's Wharf and Harrison's Landing, to find and capture torpedo workers. Respectfully, BENJ. F. BUTLER, HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA, Maj. R. S. DAVIS, Asst. Adjt. Gen., Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina: MAJOR: I respectfully call the attention of the commanding general to the fact that the rebels are vigorously pushing the work upon their iron-clad fleet in the Roanoke River. I have good reason to believe that besides the ram Albemarle two others are being built, and if they can succeed in coming into the Sounds together we have no naval force to cope with them. We have a fine set of naval commanders here, and they would doubtless make as good a fight as it would be possible to make with their wooden vessels, but they have all assured me that, although they consider themselves more than a match for one of the iron-clad rams, two or three of them would in all possibility clear the Sounds of our vessels. One or two iron-clads or monitors, could we |