HEADQUARTERS MIDDLE MILITARY DIVISION,
March 31, 1865.

General STEVENSON:

You will be required to picket the river to Cat-tail Run, where General Brooke will meet you. The general desires you to send him by next train an official copy of this telegram for his guidance. The principal crossing places are to be picketed with vigilance and frequent patrols between the main posts. With these general directions General Brooke will establish such a system of guards at the river as he may see proper, reporting his arrangements to these headquarters. Colonel Bird will picket the main fords so low as down to the next practicable ford above Back Ford and patrol between his picket posts.

C. H. MORGAN,

Brevet Brigadier-General.

HARPER'S FERRY, March 31, 1865.

Brigadier-General MORGAN,

Chief of Staff:

A small scout of Loudoun Rangers, sent into Loudoun yesterday returned last night and brought in four of Mosby's men, among them a notorious rascal and assassin by the name of Painter.

Respectfully,

JOHN D. STEVENSON,

Brigadier-General.

Abstract from return of the Army of the Potomac, Major General George G. Meade, U. S. Army, commanding, for the month of March, 1865.

Present for duty.

Command. Officer Men. Aggrega Aggrega

s te te

present present

and

absent.

General headquarters 38 - 38 40

Provost Guard (Macy) 35 1,631 1,872 2,251

Post of City Point 92 2,276 2,919 3,584

(Collis)

Engineer Brigade (Benham) 61 2,467 2,965 3,812

Battalion U. S. Engineers 7 209 264 321

(Harwood)

Independent Company 2 16 66 102

Oneida (N. Y.) Cavalry

(Batchelder)

Artillery (Hunt) 41 1,139 1,229 2,562

Signal Corps (Davis) 9 133 149 161

Second Army Corps 1,064 20,107 26,230 45,923

(Humphreys)

Fifth Army Corps (Warren) 685 15,576 20,979 33,307

Sixth Army Corps (Wright) 820 18,761 23,819 33,363

Ninth Army Corps (Paarke) 795 18,931 23,990 34,744

Total.* 3,649 81,246 104,520 160,170

Pieces of artillery.

Command. Heavy. Field. Mortars

General headquarters - - -

Provost Guard (Macy) - - -

Post of City Point - - -

(Collis)

Engineer Brigade (Benham) - - -

Battalion U. S. Engineers - - -

(Harwood)

Independent Company - - -

Oneida (N. Y.) Cavalry

(Batchelder)

Artillery (Hunt) 59 24 70

Signal Corps (Davis) - - -

Second Army Corps - 30 -

(Humphreys)

Fifth Army Corps (Warren) - 36 -

Sixth Army Corps (Wright) - 44 -

Ninth Army Corps (Paarke) - 36 -

Total.* 59 170 70

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*For the "effective strength" of the armies operating against Richmond, see Part I, p. 62.

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