HDQRS. ARMY OF THE SHENANDOAH, MIDDLE MIL. DIV.,
April 23, 1865.

Major-General HANCOCK,

Commanding Middle Military Div., Washington, D. C.:

Will members of rebel legislature of Virginia be allowed to return to their homes within the lines of the U. S. Army? There is one now outside who desires to come to his home here. If allowed, on what conditions?

A. T. A. TORBERT,

Brevet Major-General, Commanding.

WASHINGTON CITY, April 23, 1865.

Major-General TORBERT,

Winchester:

Notify all the subordinate commanders along the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and in West Virginia to the Kanawha that they must not relax their vigilance in reference to the murdered of President Lincoln. Booth has not yet been arrested, and it is thought that he may attempt to escape in disguise as a woman or otherwise through that portion of the country.

WINF'D S. HANCOCK,

Major-General, U. S. Volunteers.

(Same to Major General W. H. Emory, Cumberland, and Brigadier-General Stevenson, Harper's Ferry.)

HDQRS. ARMY OF THE SHENANDOAH, MIDDLE MIL. DIV.,
April 23, 1865.

Major-General HANCOCK,

Commanding Middle Military Div., Washington, D. C.:

Information received to-day from a rebel officer who gave his parole at this place leads me to think Johnston has disbanded his army.

A. T. A. TORBERT,

Brevet Major-General, Commanding.

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE SHENANDOAH,
April 23, 1865.

Major-General HANCOCK,

Commanding Middle Military Division, Corner F and 17th streets, Washington, D. C.:

GENERAL: Two men of Mosby's have just come in and claim to be British subjects. They wish permission to go to Canada. What shall I do in such cases?

TORBERT,

General, Commanding Army.

HEADQUARTERS, April 23, 1865.

Brigadier-General HAYEs,

New Creek:

The detachment to capture or drove away the rebel officers and soldiers who refuse to surrender may be sent as you propose. The officer