desers who are roaming over the country. Daily reports may be dispensed with except when a considerable change takes place in your command, in which case you will immediately report it. Send trimonthly report as heretofore.

Very respectfully,

GEO. L. HARTSUFF,

Major-General, Commanding.

HEADQUARTERS ARTILLERY BRIGADE,
Broadway Landing, Va., April 21, 1865.

Major J. M. HOWARD,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

MAJOR: Am I to understand from the communication just received from Major-General Hartsuff that the entire armament is to be removed from the Bermuda Hundred lines, or that it is still to be haled?

I am, major, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

HENRY L. ABBOT,

Colonel First Connecticut Art., Bvt. Brigadier General of Vols., Commanding

[Indorsement.]

Leave some light guns and hold the line with the smallest force.

G. L. HARTSUFF,

Major-General.

HEADQUARTERS ARMIES OF THE UNITED STATES,
Washington, D. C., April 21, 1865.

Major General C. C. AUGUR,

Commanding Department of Washington:

GENERAL: Lieutenant-General Grant desires that a guard, costing of two sentinels during the day and five sentinels at night, be furnished his headquarters, corner of F and Seventeenth streets, from the troops stationed at the War Department Barracks; and that the officer of the guard from which these sentinels are taken be instructed to report to Lieutenant-Colonel Bowers, assistant adjutant-general, at these headquarters, for orders regarding the posting of the sentinels. It is requested that the above-mentioned arrangement may be carried into effect this evening, relieving the guard now here, which is furnished from Fry Barracks.

I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

T. S. BOWERS,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS REMOUNT CAMP,
Pleasant Valley, Md., April 21, 1865.

Major WILLIAM RUSSELL, Jr.,

Assistant Adjutant-General, Cavalry, Middle Military Division:

The dismounted men of the Second Division left camp yesterday afternoon with orders to report to General Chapman on the march. They numbered about 900.

C. FITZ SIMONS,

Lieutenant-Colonel, Commanding.