command to New York at once. You will be informed at what your transportation can be furnished. Please send at once to the Relay House and have them brought in by special train and report their arrival.

By command of Major-General Wallace:

SAML. B. LAWRENCE,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS MIDDLE DEPARTMENT,
Baltimore, Md., July 15, 1864.

Brigadier General E. B. TYLER:

GENERAL: I am instructed by Major-General Wallace, to request you to strengthen the garrison at Fort Dix, Relay House, the sailors having been recalled from there. You will call upon Brigadier-General Lockwood for any forces you may need. Five companies are expected to arrive to night to report to General Lockwood, which will enable him to give you some troops.

Respectfully, your obedient servant,

SAML. B. LAWRENCE,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS MIDDLE DEPARTMENT,
Baltimore, Md., July 15, 1864.

Captain McNULTY,

Twenty-first New York Cavalry:

You will report, with your company, for duty to Brigadier-General Tyler at the Relay House. This will continue until further orders.

LEW. WALLACE,

Major-General, Commanding.

HEADQUARTERS MIDDLE DEPARTMENT,
July 15, 1864.

Brigadier-General LOCKWOOD:

GENERAL: I am anxious about Fort Dix. Send 200 of the sailors who will shortly report to you by order to aid the garrison there. They will go by rail, but must first be sent to Lieutenant Isaacs, ordnance officer, and armed with muskets.

LEW. WALLACE,

Major-General, Commanding Department.

JULY 15, 1864.

Major JUDD,

Wilmington, Del.:

Send here at once the company of the Ohio National Guard stationed at Wilmington, one company of the Delaware troops from Wilmington, two companies of the same from Havre de Grace, one company of the same from Conowingo bridge. Send all as quick as possible, with three days' rations and forty rounds ammunition.

By command of Major-General Wallace:

SAML. B. LAWRENCE,

Assistant Adjutant-General.