receive orders to move your command, to Fort Federal Hill, in charge of a sufficient guard. If you have no arms to give the drafted men, send them also to Fort Federal Hill.

By command of Brigadier-General Morris:

SAML. B. LAWRENCE,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS MIDDLE DEPARTMENT,
Baltimore, Md., July 10, 1864.

Mr. GARRETT,

President Baltimore and Ohio Railroad:

Please inform us as soon as any troops arrive, in order that orders may be issued.

SAML. B. LAWRENCE,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

CAMDEN STATION, July 10, 1864.

Colonel LAWRENCE,

Assistant Adjutant-General.:

I am [in] receipt of a telegram dated at Mariottsville at 1. 45 this a. m., stating that two trains with troops passed that point at 12. 20 and 1. 40, both of which will be due in Baltimore between 3 and 4 this a. m. These are troops of General Ricketts, which we understand were not engaged in the battle to-day.

J. W. GARRETT,

President.

CAMDEN STATION, July 10, 1864.

Colonel LAWRENCE;

I have this moment received the following dispatch from our agent at Ellicott's Mills, who went up yesterday morning:

ELLICOTT'S MILLS, July 10, 1864-5. 40 a. m.

W. P. SMITH;

We arrived safely here, bringing in all empty and loaded cars. Are now prepared to load General Wallace's division as soon as it arrives. One section of Alexanders' battery passed here about 5, accompanied by some few stragglers. The main body is reported as being some five or six miles behind from here. The trains of empty cars have all arrived here from Baltimore.

W. S. CARVER.

W. P. SMITH.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS, Numbers 1.
Baltimore, Md., July 10, 1864.

1. The following-named officers are temporarily assigned as acting assistant adjutants-general at these headquarters, and will be respected accordingly: Major H. W. Wharton, Major W. M. Este, Major Amos Binney, Major Brantz Mayer.

2. Captain James A. Douglass, acting commissary of subsistence, having tendered his services, is hereby ordered to report to Brigadier-General Lockwood, commanding irregular forces around Baltimore, for temporary duty as commissary of subsistence.