that 150 yards would be ample, as there would be no circumstances, perhaps, where the advantage of a double bridge would compensate for the increased length of the wagon train.

WINF'D HANCOCK,

Major-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
WAR DEPT., ADJT. GENERAL'S OFFICE, Numbers 151.
Washington, March 29, 1865.

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59. Brigadier General G. B. Raum, U. S. Volunteers, will report in person without delay to Major-General Hancock, U. S. Volunteers, at Winchester, Va., for assignment to duty.

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By order of the Secretary of War:

E. D. TOWNSEND,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS MIDDLE MILITARY DIVISION,

March 29, 1865.

Brevet Major-General TORBERT,

Chief of Cavalry:

GENERAL: The major-general commanding directs that you place a strong squadron, or at least 100 cavalry, at Smithfield, to picket and patrol the country in the vicinity and in the direction of Bunker Hill, and to pursue and force of guerrillas appearing on this side of Apple Pie Ridge.

Respectfully, your obedient servant,

C. H. MORGAN,

Brevet Brigadier-General and Chief of Staff.

HEADQUARTERS MIDDLE MILITARY DIVISION,
March 29, 1865.

General STEVENSON:

General Carroll reports Rosser as in his reports in Hampshire County. The information is doubted here, but if reliable you may have some trouble on the right of your lines.

C. H. MORGAN,

Brevet Brigadier-General, &c.

HEADQUARTERS MIDDLE MILITARY DIVISION,
March 29, 1865.

Brigadier-General STEVENSON,

Harper's Ferry:

Please send word to General Brooke to send all troops of the First Corps to Berryville without delay with their allowance of ambulances and transports. They will draw their supplies from Sumit Point. Lieutenant-Colonel Bird will report in person for instructions at these