Close all the liquor shops within your command and place guards to prevent straggling and desertion. They will pass through at the rate of 5,000 for each day, and will be about four days in passing I will give you any further instructions of their coming that I obtain.

Please acknowledge receipt.

By command of Major-General Crook:

ROBT. P. KENNEDY,

Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.

HARPER'S FERRY, VA., January 22, 1865.

Major-General CROOK,

Cumberlnad, Md.:

Ample supplied of coffee will be prepared for passing troops at Martinsburgh and Sandy Hook, at the depots, ready for issue on arrival of the trains. Your orders in regard to liquor shops can be easily executed, as there is but one, I believe, on the line of the road in my district.

Respectfully,

JOHN D. STEVENSON,

Brigadier-General.

CUMBERLAN, January 22, 1865.

Brigadier-General STEVENSON:

The first of the Twenty-third Corps will pass through Harper's Ferry to-morrow, 23rd instant.

ROBT. P. KENNEDY,

Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.

HARPER'S FERRY, January 22, 1865.

Brigadier-General STEWARD,

Martinsburg:

I am instructed by the major-general commanding to inform you that there will be large movement of troops from the West over the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, commencing to-morrow, averaging about 4,000 per day. You will direct you commissary to cause to be prepared to supply the troops upon their arrival at Martinsburg with an ample supply of hot coffee at the depot as the trains arrive. Similar preparations will be made at Sandy Hook to supply those who are not furnished at Martinsburg. The first body of troops will arrived to-morrow, so that your preparations will have to be made early in the morning. The general also directs that during the movement all liquor shops be closed.

JOHN D. STEVENSON,

Brigadier-General.

MARTINSBURG, VA., January 22, 1865.

Brigadier-General STEVENSON:

All arrangements have been made to feed the troops and prevent straggling.

W. H. SEWARD,

Brigadier-General.