track and get road open. He replied: "Will send force in a day or two. " He also stated that he had burned Andrew Hunter's residence at Charlestown, and had given orders to burn Faulkner's house at Martinsburg, and that it is his intention if he finds guerrillas at Charlestown to burn that town; and as Clarke County only polled two votes against the ordinance of secession, he will burn every house in the county.

If this course is pursued I apprehend such retaliation will follow as will largely add to the losses and sufferings of our border. Our repair forces commenced at 10 this morning to reconstruct Opequon bridge, two miles east of Martinsburg. They expect to complete it on Wednesday. On Thursday Harper's Ferry bridge will also be completed. I hope, if the enemy is driven off, to commence to-morrow the reconstruction of the destroyed track between Opequon and Harper's Ferry.

JOHN W. GARRETT,

President.

HDQRS. DEPT. OF WASHINGTON, 22nd ARMY CORPS,
July 18, 1864

Major-General HALLECK,

Chief of Staff:

There are three regiments of heavy artillery with the Sixth Corps, the First Vermont Heavy Artillery, or Eleventh Vermont Volunteers, Colonel Warner; the Ninth New York Heavy Artillery, and the Second Connecticut Heavy Artillery, Colonel Mackenzie.

Respectfully, yours,

C. C. AUGUR.

Major-General.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPT. OF WASHINGTON, TWENTY-SECOND ARMY CORPS, Numbers 60.
July 18, 1864.

Major Walter Cutting, aide-de-camp, is hereby announced as acting assistant inspector-general of this department. He will be obeyed and respected accordingly.

By command of Major-General Augur:

C. H. RAYMOND,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HDQRS. HARDIN'S DIVISION, 22nd ARMY CORPS,
DEPARTMENT OF WASHINGTON,

Washington, D. C., July 18, 1864.

Lieutenant Colonel J. H. TAYLOR,

Chief of Staff and Asst. Adjt. General Dept. of Washington:

I have the honor to make the following report concerning the amount of force I deem necessary to hold the defenses north of the Potomac against a coup de main or sudden attack such as we have recently been threatened with: One regiment of heavy artillery from Fort Sumner, Md., to Fort Reno, D. C., one from Fort Reno, D. C., to Fort Stevens, D. C.,one from Fort Stevens to Fort Lincoln, D. C. one south of the Eastern Branch, with three regiments of 100-days' men, or other infantry regiments, each 1,000 strong, and