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Page 688 OPERATIONS IN N. VA., W. VA., MD., AND PA. Chapter XLIX.

MARTINSBURG, June 28, 1864

Brigadier General MAX WEBER,

Harper's Ferry:

If the arms of the Twelfth Pennsylvania Cavalry have not arrived yet, they will be armed temporarily with muskets or rifles.

By order:

T. A. MEYSENBURG,

Assistant Adjutant-General

POINT OF ROCKS, June 28, 1864.

Captain H. M. BURLEIGH

Assistant Adjutant-General:

This command will leave at 1 a.m. to-night for Leesburg, to join Colonel Lowell's command, for the purpose of scouting in Loudoun. If you have any information from Loudoun I will thank you to communicate the same before I leave.

DANL. M. KEYES

Captain, Commanding Loudoun Rangers.

CUMBERLAND, June 28, 1864.

COMMANDING OFFICER,

Sir John's Run:

Were there any rebels in Bath to-day? If so, why did you not report it by telegraph to me? Send a scout of twenty men out to-morrow morning.

B. F. KELLEY,

Brigadier-General.

CUMBERLAND, June 28, 1864.

Colonel WILKINSON,

Clarksburg,

I am ordered by General Sigel to send a company to Wheeling to guard prisoners on their arrival from Beverly. You will, therefore, detail a company for that duty. I am not advised whether the prisoners will arrive at Clarksburg or Webster. Answer.

B. F. KELLEY,

Brigadier-General.

WASHINGTON, June 29, 1864-10.30 a.m.

Lieutenant-General GRANT,

City Point, Va.:

General Hunter has applied for and obtained leave to come to Washington, for consultation in respect to future operations. I have directed him to telegraph in the mean time directly to you such information as he may have. I only know that he has reached his supplies on Loup Creek, near Gauley.

H. W. HALLECK,

Major-General and Chief of Staff.


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