PRESIDENT-STREET DEPOT,

July 12, 1864.

General ORD:

I wish to send engine to burned bridge. Can you send me a guard, and how soon?

W. CRAWFORD.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS EIGHTH ARMY CORPS, Numbers 1.
Baltimore, Md., July 12, 1864.

1. Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Bliss, chief quartermaster Eighth Army Corps, is relieved from duty as quartermaster of that corps, and will report for duty to Major-General Wallace, commanding Middle Department, subject to the approval of the President of the United States.

2. Captain C. W. Thomas, depot quartermaster Eighth Army Corps, is hereby appointed quartermaster Eighth Army Corps, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel, subject to the approval of the President.

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By order of Major General E. C. Ord:

SAMUEL B. LAWRENCE,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

RELAY HOUSE, July 12, 1864.

Major-General ORD:

The troops at Annapolis Junction fell back to Annapolis, including 162 sick from hospital, by order of Colonel Root, commanding at Annapolis. The operator at the Junction handed him your dispatch, ordering him here, and offered him cars. The operator has just reached here on special train on his way to Baltimore. He reports Washington road torn up from Beltsville to Laurel. Operator left Junction at 8 o'clock; reports our forces falling back from Laurel; reported by stragglers that the enemy in force was following them.

W. W. HENRY,

Colonel, Commanding.

HEADQUARTERS,
July 12, 1864.

General MORRIS,

Commanding, Fort McHenry:

General Ord directs me to inform you that Commodore Dornin will send 200 men of the navy to report to you for duty. Please put some of them in Fort Marshall.

Respectfully, &c.,

S. S. SEWARD,

Major and Aide-de-Camp.