[Indorsements.]

HEADQUARTERS,
November 25, 1863.

Respectfully forwarded, for information of the Department.

General Imboden and his troops seem to have accomplished all that could be done.

R. E. LEE,

General.

DECEMBER 1, 1863.

Noted, with regret that more could not have been done, but with no complaint of General Imboden's proceedings, which appear to have been judicious. Colonel Jackson's attention should be called to the conduct of part of his men who had straggled.

J. A. S. [SEDDON],

Secretary.

NOVEMBER 3, 1863.-Scout about Catlett's Station, Va.

Report of Major John S. Mosby, C. S. Army.

FAUQUIER, November 6, 1863.

GENERAL: I returned yesterday from a scout in the neighborhood of Catlett's. I was accompanied by Captain Smith and 2 men of my command. We killed Kilpatrick's division commissary* and captured and adjutant, 4 men, 6 horses, &c. Kilpatrick's division (now reported unfit for duty) lies around Weaverville. About one brigade of infantry in the vicinity of Catlett's. A good deal of artillery moved forward from Warrenton on the 4th. Sedgwick still remained there. I sent you 4 cavalrymen on Wednesday captured by my scouts.

Respectfully, your obedient servant,

JNO. S. MOSBY,

Major, &c.

Major-General STUART,

Commanding Cavalry Corps.

NOVEMBER 4, 1863.-Skirmish near Rocky Run, N. C.

Report of Major Floyd Clarkson, Twelfth New York Cavalry.

CAMP NEAR ROCKY RUN,

November 5, 1863.

ADJUTANT: I have to report that yesterday, 4th instant, as Lieutenant A. J. Pierson, of K Troop, who was then officer of the detachment on picket at the Pine-tree, was returning from the Red House (whither he had been on patrol with Sergeant Moore, Corporal

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*Lieutenant Timothy Hedges, Second New York Cavalry, acting commissary of subsistence of Kilpatrick's division, was "wounded by guerrillas near Catlett's Station November 3, 1863."

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