SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. MIDDLE DEPT., 8TH ARMY CORPS, Numbers 174.
Baltimore, July 11, 1864.

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II. Brigadier General H. H. Lockwood, having been ordered by the Secretary of War to report to Major-General Wallace for duty, is hereby assigned to the command of all the defenses of Baltimore excepting Forts Carroll, McHenry, Marshall, and Federal Hill.

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By command of Major-General Wallace:

SAML. B. LAWRENCE,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS EIGHTH ARMY CORPS,

Baltimore, July 11, 1864.

Brigadier General H. H. LOCKWOOD:

GENERAL: The bearer, Mr. Hopkins, brings some information in regard to an intended burning of iron-works to-night. I do not know him, but should you deem the information sufficient please make such dispositions in that vicinity, if possible, to surprise and defeat the rebels should they come there.

By direction of Major-General Ord:

SAML. B. LAWRENCE,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HDQRS. THIRD SEPARATE Brigadier, 8TH ARMY CORPS,
Baltimore, July 11, 1864.

Lieutenant Colonel S. B. LAWRENCE,

Assistant Adjutant-General, Eighth Army Corps:

COLONEL: I sent a staff officer to you last evening to ascertain whether Colonel Gilpin, of the Potomac Home Brigade, was to report to me or to Brigadier-General Lockwood. I understood he was to report to Brigadier-General Lockwood, and that he had received instructions so to do. He now reports to me, and says he is ordered to do so. He reports that he has 350 men of the One hundred and forty-ninth and One hundred and forty-fourth Ohio Regiments; 350 men of the Eleventh Maryland Regiment; 180 men of the First Maryland Potomac Home Brigade, and 581 men of his own regiment, the Third Maryland Potomac Home Brigade, making a total of 1,461 men. What disposition shall be made of him and his troops?

Very respectfully,

JOHN R. KENLY,

Brigadier-General, Commanding.

HDQRS. MIDDLE DEPT., EIGHTH ARMY CORPS,
Baltimore, July 11, 1864.

General KENLY, Commanding, &c.:

GENERAL: I am directed by the general commanding to request that you will call at department headquarters as soon as possible, as he is desirous of seeing you upon important business.

I am, general, very respectfully, &c.,

MAX. WOODHULL,

Captain and Aide-de-Camp.