NAVE DEPARTMENT, April 17, 1865.

Commanding OFFICER U. S. STEAMSHIP BANSHEE, CHERRYSTONE, VA.:

Blockade the Maryland shore from Patuxent River to Annapolis.

F. A. PARKER,

Commander, U. S. Navy.

SAINT INIGOES, April 17, 1865.

Commander F. A. PARKER:

I have received information of the rebels being at Piney Point. Have ordered the Anocostia to cruise there to-night if she could be spared by the guard vessel.

S. NICKERSON.

WINCHESTER, VA., April 17, 1865.

Honorable E. M. STANTON:

Altough I have consulted with two of Mosby's officers here I do not intend to meet him in person at this time. General Chapman is to have an interview with him to-morrow at Millwood. I have reason to believe that Mosby may surrender his forces. His proposition was to suspend hostilities against him until he could hear from the Confederate authorities. I have declined to enter into a suspension of hostilities only until to-morrow. One of his men came in to-day. If Mosby surrenders I will endeavor to ascertain from or throuhg him something concerning the matter you especially refer to, and will probably have an interview with him. I hve now a suitable person engaged in seeking information of that kind from Mosby's men. I thank you for your caution to me against surprise.

WINF'D S. HANCOCK,

Major-General.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. MIDDLE MILITARY DIVISION, Numbers 43.
Winchester, Va., April 17, 1865.

In obedience to General Orders, Numbers 69, War Department, Adjutant-General Office, April 17, 1865, labor will be suspended at all military posts and on all public works in this command on Wednesday next, the day of the funeral of the late President of the United States. The flags at all military posts, stations, forts, buildings, and vessels will be kept at half-mast during the day, and at 12 m. twenty-one minute guns will be fired from all forts, and at all military posts.

By command of Major-General Hancock:

DUNCAN S. WALKER,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

DARNESTOWN, April 17, 1865.

Liueut. Colonel J. H. TAYLOR,

Chief of Staff and Assistant Adjutant-General:

Two hunderd White's and Mosby's men have sent word that they wish to be paroled at Edwards Ferry. They have been directed to come to-morrow. Shall I not send to your headquarters for blank paroles, or can the officer parole the men?

J. L. THOMPSON,

Colonel, Commanding.

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