MONOCACY, July 6, 1864.

Lieutenant-Colonel LAWRENCE,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

Dispatch received. Direct Colonel Root to draw arms and equip the stragglers from Sigel's department and use them as guards at Annapolis. As many of his command as are there relieved from duty will be forwarded to this place.

By order of Major-General Wallace:

MAX. WOODHULL,

Captain and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

MONOCACY, July 6, 1864.

Lieutenant Colonel S. B. LAWRENCE:

Send Colonel Woolley's first report in the Reid case to Secretary Stanton. All very quiet here. if there is a big force of rebels in the Valley it has not developed itself.

LEW. WALLACE,

Major-General, Commanding.

MONOCACY, July 6, 1864.

Lieutenant-Colonel LAWRENCE:

The general commanding directs that the four companies ordered from the Eastern Shore, upon their arrival in Baltimore, may be sent forward to this place by rail. Telegraph Root to send to the Monocacy all the troops he can spare from his command, with 100 rounds per man.

MAX. WOODHULL,

Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

JULY 6, 1864 - 7. 35 p. m.

Major-General WALLACE,

Monocacy Junction, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad:

The troops from Annapolis will soon be on the road. Those from the Eastern Shore not yet arrived. A dispatch from the Secretary of War, ordering the immediate release of Mr. Andrew Reid, was imprisoned. I replied calling attention to letter of June 28 to Colonel Townsend. Have you anything you wish me to communicate to General Halleck?

SAML. B. LAWRENCE,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. MIDDLE DEPT., 8TH ARMY CORPS, Numbers 170.
Baltimore, July 6, 1864.

1. Captain E. H. Leib, Fifth U. S. Cavalry, si hereby ordered to proceed, with the cavalry assigned to his command by paragraph 2, Special Orders, Numbers 169, current series, to Monocacy Junction, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and report to Brigadier General E. B. Tyler.

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By command of Major-General Wallace:

SAMUEL B. LAWRENCE,
Assistant Adjutant-General.