GENERAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS MIDDLE DEPARTMENT, Numbers 52. Baltimore, Md., July 14, 1864.

I. Brigadier General H. H. Lockwood is hereby assigned to the command of the Defenses of Baltimore and all of the Middle Department not comprised in the command of Brigadier-General Tyler and Brevet Brigadier-General Morris.

II. Brigadier General E. B. Tyler will resume command of the district heretofore comprised in the command of the First Separate Brigade.

III. Brevet Brigadier-General Morris will retain command of Forts McHenry, Marshall, Carroll, and Federal Hill.

IV. Until further orders Brigadier-General Tyler will make his headquarters in this city and assist General Lockwood in his duties.

By command of Major-General Wallace:

SAMUEL B. LAWRENCE,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS MIDDLE DEPARTMENT, Numbers 53. Baltimore, Md., July 14, 1864.

General Orders, Numbers 51, is not intended to revoke the orders heretofore existing requiring passes to go to Fortress Monroe, or to Annapolis and points on the Eastern and Western Shores of Maryland by boat or railroad, and from Wilmington south by rail. Passes to the above-named points will be granted by Lieutenant Colonel John Woolley, provost-marshal Middle Department.

By command of Major-General Wallace:

SAMUEL B. LAWRENCE,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HDQRS. MIDDLE DEPARTMENT, EIGHTH ARMY CORPS,
Baltimore, Md., July 14, 1864.

Major General LEW. WALLACE:

GENERAL: Having been ordered to Washington, I leave this p. m., and the command of the troops in the department necessarily devolves upon you. The readiness with which you have co-operated in arranging the defenses and your desire to meet the enemy under my orders showed a zeal not always found under similar circumstances, and I shall remember it.

With great respect, I am, yours, truly,

E. O. C. ORD,

Major-General, U. S. Volunteers.

BALTIMORE, July 14, 1864. (Received 10. 20 p. m.)

Major-General HALLECK,

Chief of Staff:

If you will send the 100 men of Clendenin's (Eighth Illinois) cavalry, we have the horses to mount them. The cavalry is much needed here to assist in clearing out the guerrillas.

LEW. WALLACE,

Major-General, Commanding.