HARPER'S FERRY, W. VA., July 24, 1864-11. 30 p. m.

Honorable EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War:

Following just received from my aide at Martinsburg:

Colonel Mulligan dangerously wounded, perhaps mortally. There is undoubtedly a large force in our front. Our forces hold their lines, except the cavalry, which has behaved disgracefully.

D. HUNTER,

Major-General.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF WEST VIRGINIA,
Harper's Ferry, W. Va., July 24, 1864.

Major General GEORGE CROOK,

Commanding Forces in Shenandoah Valley, Winchester, Va.:

GENERAL: Your telegram of yesterday's date I have received. This telegram contained information valuable to the enemy, and was read by every operator from Grafton to Baltimore. In view of this, and f the further fact that messages are liable to be taken from the wires by those in the interests of the enemy, I suggest that hereafter they be put in cipher, when important, and transmitted, so long as practicable, by couriers sent to these headquarters direct, it being but a few miles farther to this place than to Martinsburg.

I am, very respectfully, general, your obedient servant,

D. HUNTER,

Major-General.

HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY,
Washington, July 24, 1864.

Major General H. G. WRIGHT, Commanding, &c.:

Lieutenant-General Grant directs that the Sixth Corps immediately return to the Army of the Potomac. Brigadier-General Emory, with that portion of the Nineteenth Corps here, will report to Major-General Augur.

H. W. HALLECK,

Major-General and Chief of Staff.

HEADQUARTERS SIXTH AND NINETEENTH CORPS,
July 24, 1864.

Colonel J. C. KELTON,

Assistant Adjutant-General, Washington, D. C.:

COLONEL: In reply to your of the 23rd instant, I have the honor to state that the troops of the Nineteenth Corps with my command comprise the Ninetieth New York Volunteers, Twenty-ninth Maine Volunteers, Thirtieth Massachusetts Volunteers, One hundred and fourteenth New York Volunteers, One hundred and sixteenth New York Volunteers, One hundred and fifty-third New York Volunteers, Thirteenth Maine Volunteers, Fifteenth Maine Volunteers (four companies), forty-seventh Pennsylvania Volunteers (six companies), Eighth Vermont Volunteers, One hundred and sixtieth New York Volunteers, footing up 263 officers and 5,320 enlisted men present for duty.

H. G. WRIGHT,

Major-General, Commanding.