HEADQUARTERS U. S. FORCES,
July 20, 1864-10. 45 a. m.

Colonel C. R. LOWELL,

Commanding Cavalry:

COLONEL: The major-general commanding directs that you move your force at once to Snicker's Ford and cross, leaving an adequate force to guard the roads approaching the gap as previously directed. After your force has crossed the river it will move in advance of the infantry, and you will send small parties out on all the roads in the neighborhood of the road on which the troops march. Please report in person to these headquarters, which will be on the other side of the river.

CHAS. A. WHITTIER,

Major and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS MIDDLE DEPARTMENT,
Baltimore, Md., July 20, 1864.

Commodore DORNIN, U. S. NAVY,

Baltimore, Md.:

COMMODORE: I have the honor to inform you that I have no objections now to your withdrawing the boats from the Gunpowder and Bush Rivers, which you placed there at my request to guard the railroad bridges. I take this opportunity to thank you for your prompt reply to my request for assistance when danger was imminent. The aid you rendered me was of great importance.

I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

LEW. WALLACE,

Major-General, Commanding.

GENERAL ORDERS, HDQRS. MIDDLE DEPT., 8TH ARMY CORPS, Numbers 55.
Baltimore, July 20, 1864.

I. Brigadier General J. R. Kenly is hereby relieved from command of the Third Separate Brigade, Eighth Army Corps, to take effect from the 14th instant.

II. Paragraph 1, of General Orders, Numbers 52, is hereby amended to read as follows, viz: Brigadier General H. H. Lockwood is hereby assigned to the command of the Third Separate Brigade and the district included therein, as provided in General Orders, Numbers 17,* current series, headquarters Middle Department. The command of General lockwood will also include the District of Delaware and the Defenses of Baltimore, exclusive of Forts McHenry, Carroll, Marshall, and Federal Hill.

By command of Major-General Wallace:

SAMUEL B. LAWRENCE,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS MIDDLE DEPARTMENT,
Baltimore, Md., July 20, 1864.

Brigadier General H. H. LOCKWOOD,

Commanding Defenses of Baltimore:

GENERAL: I am directed by the general commanding department to instruct you to send the Eleventh Maryland Infantry at once to

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*See Vol. XXXIII, p. 727.

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