HDQRS. DEPT. OF WASHINGTON, 22nd ARMY CORPS, July 8, 1864.

COMMANDING OFFICER CAVALRY BRIGADE,
Near Falls Church:

Give orders to your outposts not to permit any more persons to pass into our lines unless they wish to come in the remain, and then they must be known. Allow to pass only the residents who have passes.

Respectfully, yours,

C. C. AUGUR,

Major-General, U. S. Volunteers.

CUMBERLAND, MD., July 8, 1864-1. 30 p. m. (Received 3. 45 p. m.)

ADJUTANT-GENERAL U. S. ARMY:

I arrived here this morning and will push on my advance division to the gap at Hedgesville this evening. Hedgesville is ten miles north of Martinsburg.

D. HUNTER,

Major-General.

WASHINGTON, July 8, 1864-10 p. m.

Major-General HUNTER,

Cumberland, Md.:

Please report the positions and numbers of your forces, and when they will reach Harper's Ferry. The enemy has crossed the Potomac, and appears to be moving by Boonsborough and Middletown on Frederick. His advance, under Breckinridge, has crossed the Monocacy, and is moving on Urbana. Unless your forces move forward rapidly they will not be in time to be of much use.

H. W. HALLECK,

Major-General and Chief of Staff.

WASHINGTON, July 8, 1864-11 p. m.

Brigadier General A. P. HOWE,

Harper's Ferry, W. Va.:

General Hunter's advance expects to reach Hedgesville gap, about ten miles north of Martinsburg, this evening. You will prepare all your available force to take the field as soon General Hunter arrives. You will also assist him in effecting a junction.

H. W. HALLECK,

Major-General and Chief of Staff.

[JULY 8, 1864. -For Sigel to Adjutant-General (three dispatches), see part I, pp. 179, 180.]