SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. MID. DEPT., 8TH ARMY CORPS, Numbers 169.
Baltimore, July 5, 1864.

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2. Captain E. H. Leib, Fifth U. S. Cavalry, mustering officer, having volunteered his service, is hereby ordered to command the detachment of mounted infantry in charge of Captain H. S. Allen, One hundred and fifty-ninth Ohio National Guard. captain Allen will act under orders from Captain Leib.

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By command of Major-General Wallace:

SAMUEL B. LAWRENCE,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

BALTIMORE, MD., July 5, 1864.

Mr. SMITH,

Master of Trans., Baltimore and Ohio Railroad:

SIR: The following dispatch* has just been received at these headquarters.

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Do you know anything of where General Howe is? General Wallace went down the road this a. m. He is probably at the Monocacy. Will you send the inclosed dispatch to him unless you know that he is on his return, or of the dispatch will reach him at the Relay House, please send it.

Respectfully,

SAML. R. LAWRENCE,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

MONOCACY, July 5, 1864.

Lieutenant-Colonel LAWRENCE,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

The rebel cavalry left the Point of Rocks last evening after robbing the people and stores of money and such goods as they wanted to carry into Virginia. They were Mosby's men, and were not over 120 strong. Our scouts saw them leaving and could count them. We can get nothing from Harper's Ferry. The Washington troops I send to Monrovia to be armed and supplied with ammunition there, were in no condition for service on their arrival here.

E. B. TYLER,

Brigadier-General.

JULY 5, 1864.

General E. B. TYLER,

Relay House:

A train will be at the Relay House at 8. 30 p. m. for the Eleventh Maryland Infantry to proceed to the Monocacy; be ready for it.

By order:

SAML. B. LAWRENCE,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

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* See Halleck to Wallace, 1. 30 p. m. p. 71.

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