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HDQRS. DEPT. OF WASHINGTON, 22nd ARMY CORPS,
July 28, 1864.Brigadier General J. P. SLOUGH,
Military Governor of Alexandria:
GENERAL: The Forty-second Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, 900 men, will land from transports at the Alexandria wharf this p. m. The commanding officer will report to you for duty. The major-general commanding desires that you relieve, July 29, one of the regiments Veteran Reserve Corps stationed in Alexandria, and direct it to report for orders at these headquarters. If you select the Twelfth to be relieved, let Captain Pettit's company remain at the Prince-street prison.
Respectfully,
J. H. TAYLOR,
Chief of Staff and Assistant Adjutant-General.
HDQRS. DEPT. OF WASHINGTON, 22nd ARMY CORPS,
July 28, 1864.Brigadier General JOHN P. SLOUGH,
Military Governor of Alexandria:
GENERAL: The major-general commanding directs that the regiment of Veteran Reserve Corps to be relieved by you report to Brigadier-General De Russy, commanding division, instead of at these headquarters.
Respectfully,
J. H. TAYLOR,
Chief of Staff and Assistant Adjutant-General.
(Corresponding instructions to Brigadier-General De Russy.)
HEADQUARTERS CAVALRY BRIGADE,
Nea Falls Church, Va., July 28, 1864.Lieutenant Colonel J. H. TAYLOR,
Chief of Staff and Assistant Adjutant-General:
COLONEL: I have the honor to report all quiet in this vicinity. With the exception of a small party just returned from Aldie, nothing has been heard from the several scouts sent out in the direction of the mountains. No intelligence is brought by the party above referred to of any force in the vicinity of Aldie, or expected there. I have made the following dispositions here: Three companies have been placed at Annandale and two at Lewinsville. At both these points they are protected by a strong enveloping abatis, and at Lewinsville by a stockade inside of it. A continuous line of pickets, with reserves at two intermediate points, has been established between here and Annandale, and a line below Annandale to Edsall Hill. A line of pickets, with one intermediate reserve, has been established between this point and Lewinsville, thence above to near the Potomac. It is believed that the whole line is sufficiently closed from the Potomac to the Orange and Alexandria
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