MARTINSBURG, June 28, 1864. If the arms of the Twelfth Pennsylvania Cavalry have not arrived yet, they will be armed temporarily with muskets or rifles. By order: T. A. MEYSENBURG, Capt. H. M. BURLEIGH, POINT OF ROCKS, June 28, 1864. Assistant Adjutant-General: This command will leave at 1 a. m. to-night for Leesburg, to join Colonel Lowell's command, for the purpose of scouting in Loudoun. If you have any information from Loudoun I will thank you to communicate the same before I leave. DANL. M. KEYES, Captain, Commanding Loudoun Rangers. COMMANDING OFFICER, CUMBERLAND, June 28, 1864. Sir John's Run: Were there any rebels in Bath to-day? If so, why did you not report it by telegraph to me? Send a scout of twenty men out tomorrow morning. Colonel WILKINSON, Clarksburg B. F. KELLEY, CUMBERLAND, June 28, 1864. I am ordered by General Sigel to send a company to Wheeling to guard prisoners on their arrival from Beverly. You will, therefore, detail a company for that duty. I am not advised whether the prisoners will arrive at Clarksburg or Webster. Answer. B. F. KELLEY, WASHINGTON, June 29, 1864-10.30 a. m. Lieutenant-General GRANT, City Point, Va.: General Hunter has applied for and obtained leave to come to Washington, for consultation in respect to future operations. I have directed him to telegraph in the mean time directly to you such information as he may have. I only know that he has reached his supplies on Loup Creek, near Gauley. H. W. HALLECK, Major General and Chief of Staff, CITY POINT, Va., June 29, 1864-9 p. m. Maj. Gen. H. W. HALLECK, Chief of Staff: Please send General Hunter here immediately on his arrival in Washington. Probably on consultation I can better direct future movements for him after such consultation. U. S. GRANT, Lieutenant-General. Major-General HUNTER, WAR DEPARTMENT, June 29, 1864-1.50 p. m. Hdqrs. Dept. of West Virginia, Loup Creek: At the present juncture, and without knowing the state of your command, I do not think it right to order you to Washington, although desiring much to see you and express in person the great satisfaction your operations have given, and also to learn more details than can be communicated in writing; but if you can without any risk to the service be absent for twelve hours your visit here would be very acceptable. A longer absence, if desired by you, would not be objected to by the Department. You can best judge as to whether you can leave your command, and for how long a period. EDWIN M. STANTON, HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF WEST VIRGINIA, Hon. E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War: Have received your dispatch of this date granting me permission. to visit Washington for twelve hours. I did not wish to go to Washington unless you wished to see me. I shall, therefore, await your further orders in this department. Major-General HUNTER, West Virginia: D. HUNTER, WASHINGTON, June 29, 1864. General Grant telegraphs that, as soon as your command is rested and supplied, he wishes you to effectually destroy the railroad at Charlottesville, and, if possible, also the canal. It would be well, while reorganizing your forces, for you to communicate with him. directly by telegram in regard to the enemy, and the routes best to be followed. H. W. HALLECK, Major-General and Chief of Staff. 44 R R-VOL XXXVII, PT I HDQRS. SECOND CAV. DIV., DEPT. OF WEST VIRGINIA, Lieut. Col. CHARLES G. HALPINE, Assistant Adjutant-General, Dept. of West Virginia: COLONEL: I have the honor to recommend the following changes in the organization of the cavalry of this department in order to render it efficient. The cavalry at present consists of the following regiments, viz: First West Virginia Veteran Cavalry, Colonel Capehart, Loup Creek; Second West Virginia Veteran Cavalry, Colonel Powell, Charleston; Third West Virginia Veteran Cavalry, Colonel Strother, scattered; Fifth West Virginia Veteran Cavalry, Colonel Latham, Charleston; Sixth West Virginia Veteran Cavalry, Colonel Thompson, Martinsburg; Seventh West Virginia Veteran Cavalry, Colonel Oley, Loup Creek; Twelfth Pennsylvania Veteran Cavalry, Colonel Pierce, Martinsburg; Fourteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry, Colonel Schoonmaker, Loup Creek; Twentieth Pennsylvania Cavalry, Colonel Wynkoop, Loup Creek; Twentysecond Pennsylvania Cavalry, Colonel Higgins, Martinsburg; First New York (Lincoln) Cavalry, Colonel McReynolds, Loup Creek; First New York (Veteran) Cavalry, Colonel Taylor, Martinsburg Fifteenth New York Cavalry, Colonel Richardson, Loup Creek; Twenty-first New York Cavalry, Colonel Tibbits, Loup Creek; Second Maryland Cavalry, Colonel Cole, Loup Creek; Eighth Ohio Cavalry, Colonel Moore, Beverly; Thirty-fourth Ohio Mounted. Infantry, Lieutenant-Colonel Shaw, Loup Creek. I recommend that the First, Second, Third, and Seventh West Virginia Cavalry be mounted entirely, and that the veterans and recruits of the Fifth West Virginia Cavalry, amounting to about 200 men, be transferred with all the horses and sufficient arms and equipments to the Seventh West Virginia Cavalry, their arms being the same. Let surplus officers of the Fifth be mustered out. Both regiments are now in the Kanawha Valley. Let the Seventh at once organize and equip at Charleston. Let the Sixth West Virginia Cavalry be dismounted, turn its arms and equipments over to Lieutenant North, ordnance officer, and horses to the Seventh West Virginia Cavalry. When dismounted, let it be sent to Beverly, armed as infantry, as the regiment is familiar with that country. Let the Thirty-fourth Ohio Mounted Infantry be dismounted, turning its horses and equipments over to the Second West Virginia Cavalry with sabers. After being dismounted let it be stationed at Charleston. Let the Twelfth, Twentieth, and Twenty-second Pennsylvania Cavalry be dismounted, turning over horses and equipments to the Fourteenth, with such arms as may be needed by the latter regiment. After being dismounted, let them be sent to Charleston. Let the Fifteenth New York be dismounted, turning over horses and equipments to the First New York (Lincoln). At Charleston, W. Va., there would be Thirty-fourth Ohio Mounted Infantry, Twelfth Pennsylvania Cavalry, Twentieth Pennsylvania Cavalry, Twenty-second Pennsylvania Cavalry, Fifteenth New York Cavalry, and Seventh West Virginia Cavalry (temporarily). Let them be placed under the command of Brigadier-General Duffié, who should receive authority and instructions to mount them as rapidly as possible, in the order of merit, according to instruction and discipline. One battery might also be left at Charleston. The First, Second, and Third West Virginia, Fourteenth Pennsylvania, First New York (Lincoln), First New York (Veteran), Twenty-first New York, and Eighth Ohio should be assembled in the Shenandoah Valley as soon as possible, reorganized and equipped for active operations. The Second Maryland might be of service at department headquarters. As the men are familiar with the country they will make excellent couriers and guides. All horses which do not promise to become serviceable in ten days by care and rest, should be turned over to the remount camp of General Duffié for recuperation. All dismounted men from mounted regiments should be sent to Pleasant Valley, where a temporary remount camp should be established. The Seventh West Virginia, as soon as its consolidation with the Fifth is completed at Charleston, should be sent to the Shenandoah Valley. Any mounted regiment which does not exhibit a proper state of discipline, or which neglects its horses, will be at once dismounted. I am, colonel, very respectfully, your obedient servant, Brigadier-General. [Indorsement.] HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF WEST VIRGINIA, Respectfully referred to Brig. Gen. George Crook, commanding troops in the Kanawha Valley, for his consideration and such action. as he may see fit. By command of General Hunter: CHAS. G. HALPINE, Assistant Adjutant-General. MARTINSBURG, W. Va., June 29, 1864. ADJUTANT-GENERAL U. S. ARMY: Cavalry patrols sent to Cedar Creek report no enemy in that direction. Persons who came from Staunton River Friday last report only cavalry in the Valley. F. SIGEL, Maj. Gen. H. W. HALLECK, ENGINEER DEPARTMENT, Washington, D. C., June 29, 1864. Chief of Staff, U. S. Army, Washington, D. C.: GENERAL: The pontoons of which you notified me on the 7th instant as having been recovered by Maj. D. C. Thompson, of the Second Massachusetts Cavalry, have been received at the engineer depot, are being repaired, and at a small expense will be as efficient as ever. I now learn from Colonel Pettes, in charge of the engineer depot, in this city, that there are about twenty-four pontoons, with other bridge appurtenances at Fairmont, on the upper Potomac. They were sent from Harper's Ferry under charge of Captain Personius, of Colonel Pettes' regiment (Fiftieth New York), to Wheeling, W. Va., by rail and thence sent to Fairmont. Capt. W. Penn Gaskill, at Harper's Ferry, is probably acquainted with the particulars relating to this portion of the train. I request that he be directed to give his attention to this subject; that if these boats are not in use, he cause them and appurtenances to be forwarded to Colonel Pettes at the engineer depot in this city, that they be put in order for immediate issue when called for. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, RICHARD DELAFIELD, Brigadier-General and Chief Engineer. Respectfully referred to Adjutant-General of the Army, who will call upon General Sigel for a report. By order of Major-General Halleck: ROBERT N. SCOTT, Captain, Fourth U. S. Infantry, Aide-de-Camp. [Second indorsement.] ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE, July 1, 1864. Respectfully referred to Major-General Sigel for report. W. A. NICHOLS, HEADQUARTERS, Harper's Ferry, June 29, 1864-10.30 a. m. Maj. T. A. MEYSENBURG, Assistant Adjutant-General: I have reliable information that Mosby was in Charlestown this morning, and was there during the night. He has a considerable force near by. I received a dispatch from Washington last night, that a cavalry force was sent out to Leesburg, also one went from Point of Rocks, Md., to join the force from Washington, to-day. If you can send out a cavalry force to Charlestown to-day, and drive Mosby out and across the Shenandoah, I will telegraph to Washington to have a courier sent to Leesburg with the information, and have the force move toward the Shenandoah that Mosby may be headed off and perhaps captured. Please answer immediately. MAX WEBER, Brigadier-General. General MAX WEBER: BALTIMORE, June 29, 1864. Our mail train east passed Sir John's Run about 1 this p. m., and had not arrived at Harper's Ferry at 7. It is reported that the enemy have appeared at Duffield's, and it is possible our trains may |