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

Major-General AUGUR:

GENERAL: Our operator has reached Rockville, Md., with construction party. The cavalry escort which was promised has not yet reported here. There is a company of cavalry at Rockville, and the captain says he can give him twenty or twenty-five men if directed to do so. Will you please send an order for that purpose.

I am, general, very respectfully,

THOS. T. ECKERT,

Major, &c.

SPECIAL ORDERES,
WAR DEPT., ADJT. GENERAL'S OFFICE, Numbers 232.
Washington, July 9, 1864.

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38. Colonel Thomas Wilhelm, Second Provisional Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery, will report in person without delay to the commanding general Department of Washington for assignment to the command of Forts Ethan Allen and Marcy.

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By order of the Secretary of War:

E. D. TOWNSEND,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPT. OF WASHINGTON, 22nd A. C., Numbers 168.
July 9, 1864.

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2. Brigadier General M. D. Hardin, U. S. Volunteers, having reported, in accordance with instructions from the War Department, for duty with the Twenty-second Army Corps, is hereby assigned to the command of Haskin's division, headquarters in Washington City.

3. Colonel J. M. Warner, First Vermont Heavy Artillery, is assigned to the command of the First Brigade, Haskin's division, headquarters at or in the vicinity of Tennallytown.

4. Lieutenant Colonel J. A. Haskin, aide-de-camp, is assigned to the command of the Second Brigade, Hardin's division, headquarters at Fort Stevens or Slocum, as he may select.

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By command of Major-General Augur:

C. H. RAYMOND,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

SPECIAL ORDERES,
HDQRS. HARDIN'S DIV., 22nd A. C., DEPARTMENT OF WASHINGTON,

Numbers 80. Washington, July 9, 1864.

In compliance with orders from department headquarters, the brigade heretofore designated as the First Brigade of this division will hereafter be designated as the Second Brigade, and the Second Brigade of the division will be designated as the First Brigade.

BY command of Brigadier-General Hardin:

R. CHANDLER,

Assistant Adjutant-General.