HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF WEST VIRGINIA,
Frederick, July 31, 1864.

General EMORY, Commanding, &c.:

GENERAL: Two hours since I ordered the 500 cavalry to go toward Urbana, to protect your train, &c., and urged upon the commanding officer to proceed with all speed. Please communicate anything you may hear in regard to the force said to have passed over to-day at Noland's Ferry.

D. HUNTER,

Major-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPT. OF VA. AND N. C., Numbers 208.
In the Field, Va., July 31, 1864.

I. Brigadier General H. W. Birge, commanding First Brigade, Second Division, Nineteenth Army Corps, will immediately proceed with his command to Washington, D. C., and there report for further orders. Quartermaster's department will furnish transportation.

II. Colonel Molineaux, commanding Second Brigade, Second Division, Nineteenth Army Corps, will immediately proceed with his command to Washington, D. C., and there report for further orders. Quartermaster's department will furnish transportation.

* * *

X. Colonel Washburn, commanding Eighteenth Indiana Volunteers,-Brigade, Third Division, Nineteenth Army Corps, will immediately proceed with his command to Washington, D. C., and there report for further orders. Quartermaster's department will furnish transportation.

* * *

By command of Major-General Butler:

R. S. DAVIS,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS SIXTH AND NINETEENTH CORPS,

July 31, 1864-7. 15 p. m.

Major THOMPSON,

Commanding Cavalry Battalion:

MAJOR: A dispatch from you to Colonel Lowell has just been received at these headquarters, but cannot be forwarded at present. The major-general commanding directs that you keep your command in its present position, watching the fords of the Potomac, until further orders, giving notice of any movement of the enemy at the earliest moment, at these headquarters.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

C. H. WHITTELSEY,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

WASHINGTON, D. C., July 31, 1864.

Major General H. W. HALLECK,

Chief of Staff, U. S. Army:

GENERAL: In obedience to your instructions of the 27th instant, we have made a careful examination of the defenses of Baltimore,