street's corps. They asserted positively that all three of the divisions of this corps were in our front, occupying the center of their line, Beauregard on the left and A. P. Hill on the right. I have no doubt Longstreet's corps is here.

GEO. G. MEADE,

Major-General, Commanding.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. ARMIES OF THE UNITED STATES, Numbers 52.
City Point, Va., July 9, 1864.

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By command of Lieutenant General U. S. Grant:

E. S. PARKER,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, D. C., July 9, 1864.

Brigadier General M. C. MEIGS:

GENERAL: You will please report to Major-General Halleck, Chief of Army Staff, for such field duty as you can render in Washington and its vicinity in the present emergency without prejudice to your duties as chief of Quartermaster's Bureau.

Yours, &c.,

EDWIN M. STANTON,

Secretary of War.

NEW YORK, July 9, 1864. (Received 12. 30 p. m.)

Honorable EDWIN M. STANTON,

Secretary of War:

A Southerner here, heretofore invariably well informed of rebel designs, said, confidentially, that the movement toward Frederick was a feint; that Lee in person would move in force by Georgetown Heights on Washington.

JAS. M. WHITE,

365 Fifth Avenue.

CITY POINT, VA., July 9, 1864.

COMMANDING OFFICER,

Fort Monroe:

Please inform me by telegraph of the arrival of the first transports with the advance of the Nineteenth Army Corps from New Orleans.

U. S. GRANT,

Lieutenant-General.