HDQRS. SECOND CAV. DIV., DEPT. OF WEST VIRGINIA,
Charleston, W. Va., July 2, 1864.

Lieutenant Colonel CHARLES G. HALPINE,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

COLONEL: I have the honor to request that the detachment of regiments serving in this command which are now at Martinsburg be ordered to rejoin their regiments at this point, and that all stores-ordnance and quartermaster's-with the baggage belonging to this command, be sent to this place. These stores are at Harper's Ferry, Martinsburg, and Parkersburg. I have the honor also to request that that portion of the Eighth Ohio Cavalry which was sent to Beverly to protect the train be directed to report to the regiment at this place.

I am, colonel, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

WM. W. AVERELL,

Brigadier-General.

HEADQUARTERS SECOND CAVALRY DIVISION,
Charleston, W. Va., July 2, 1864.

Lieutenant Colonel CHARLES G. HALPINE,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

COLONEL: In compliance with orders received this day I have the honor to report the following regiments composing this command:

First Brigade, Colonel J. M. Schoonmaker: Eighth Ohio Cavalry, Colonel Moore; Fourteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry, Major J. M. Daily.

Colonel H. Capehart; Seventh West Virginia Cavalry, Major H. Slack; Third West Virginia Cavalry, Major Conger; Fifth West Virginia Cavalry, Lieutenant Colonel A. Scott.

Third Brigade, Colonel W. H. Powell: Second West Virginia Cavalry, Major Hoffman; Thirty-fourth Ohio Volunteer Mounted Infantry, Lieutenant-Colonel Shaw.

I am, colonel, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

WM. W. AVERELL,

Brigadier-General.

[JULY 2, 1864.-For Sigel to Adjutant-General (three dispatches) reporting indications of movement of enemy in force down the Valley, &c., see Part I, pp. 174, 175.]

HEADQUARTERS,
Near Martinsburg, W. Va., July 2, 1864.

Major MEYSENBURG,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

MAJOR: The order has been given to have the cavalry ready to move at a moment's notice.

Yours, respectfully,

JUL. STAHEL,

Major-General.