HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF WEST VIRGINIA, Cumberland, Md., July 8, 1864.

Colonel R. M. RICHARDSON,
Commanding Fifteenth New York Cavalry;

COLONEL: The major-general commanding the department directs that you proceed right on with your regiment (without disembarking at this point) to Cherry Run, W. Va., and report to Brigadier General J. C. Sullivan at that place for orders.

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

[CHAS. G. HALPINE,]

Assistant Adjutant-General.

(Copy to Brigadier General J. C. Sullivan, commanding First Infantry Division.)

HEADQUARTERS, Frederick City, Md., July 8, 1864-8 p. m .

Major General H. W. HALLECK,
Chief of Staff:

Breckinridge, with strong column, moving down the Washington pike toward Urbana; is within six miles of that place. I shall withdraw immediately from Frederick City and myself in position on the road to cover Washington, if necessary.

LEW. WALLACE,

Major-General, Commanding.

HDQRS. MIDDLE DEPARTMENT, EIGHTH ARMY CORPS, Baltimore, July 8, 1864.

General M. C. MEIGS,
Quartermaster-General, Washington:

Telegram relative to wagons for General Ricketts received. He has only about 5,000 infantry with him; no cavalry. All the dismounted cavalry that has arrived here has been sent to the cavalry camp at Giesborough Point.

C. W. THOMAS,

Captain and Assistant Quartermaster.

BALTIMORE, MD., July 8, 1864.

Mr. GARRETT,

President Baltimore and Ohio Railroad:

SIR: A subsistence train loaded last night, and ready this a. m. at 5 o'clock, to go to the Monocacy. Another train with 100,000 rations was ready at about noon to-day. I am just informed that neither train has been moved yet, notwithstanding i have written [sic] most definite instructions last night to all officers concerned as to the importance of the subsistence being forwarded at once. General Wallace has sent four telegrams from Frederick to-day. It appears they are entirely out of rations; will you please give orders that the trains depart at once. It was agreed with General