HAGERSTOWN, July 25, 1864.

Major SCHULTZE,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

No necessity for a scare. I left Martinsburg this morning. Crook was whipped yesterday at Winchester by a superior force; re-enforced. The present scare is occasioned by the cavalry abandoning the train when it was attacked beyond Bunker Hill. There is every indication, however, of the enemy advancing. I will be here all day and perhaps longer. Cannonading can be heard here distinctly now.

WM. H. BOYD,

Colonel Twenty-first Pennsylvania Cavalry.

JULY 25, 1864.

Mr. GARRETT,

President Baltimore and Ohio Railroad:

Is the communication between here and Harper's Ferry interrupted by the storm or rebels? The commissary has a large drove of cattle at Ellicott's Mills; had they better go on or return?

LEW. WALLACE,

Major-General of Volunteers.

CAMDEN STATION, July 25, 1864.

Major-General WALLACE:

Mr. Garrett is not now here. The interruption to telegraphic communication is only partial, caused entirely by storm. We work to Frederick and he works west to Cumberland.

J. J. G. RILEY,

Superintendent Telegraph.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF WEST VIRGINIA,
Harper's Ferry, W. Va., July 25, 1864.

Major General LEW. WALLACE,

Commanding Middle Department, Baltimore, Md.:

GENERAL: I have been informed that there is a detachment of the First New York (Lincoln) Cavalry and one of the Twenty-first New York Cavalry at the Relay House. Please order them to this point at once, also any other detachments belonging to regiments serving in this department that may be within the limits of your departments.

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

D. HUNTER,

Major-General, Commanding.

HDQS. FIRST SEPARATE BRIGADE, 8TH ARMY CORPS,

Relay House, July 25, 1864.

Lieutenant Colonel S. B. LAWRENCE,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

COLONEL: From information I regard as reliable, I am led to believe that the enemy may be expected in my front any moment; and with nothing but raw militia to guard or give information of the