FEBRUARY 5, 1864. - Skirmish near Aldie, Va.

Report of Brigadier General Robert O. Tyler, U. S. Army.

HEADQUARTERS DIVISION,
February 6, 1864-9. 30 p. m.

I have the honor to report all quiet. The scouting party sent out yesterday returned this afternoon from Aldie and Middleburg. Their rear guard was attacked yesterday noon by 8 of Mosby's men; they were dispersed, and the leader, who proved to be William E. Ormsby, who deserted from Second Massachusetts Cavalry on the night of January 24, was captured, and is now being tried by drumhead court-martial. * Two men of the Second Massachusetts Cavalry and 3 rebels were wounded. Five citizens were arrested under suspicious circumstances. No evidence was found of any five being in the vicinity.

R. O. TYLER,

Brigadier-General, Commanding.

Lieutenant-Colonel TAYLOR,

Chief of Staff, Assistant Adjutant-General.

FEBRUARY 6-7, 1864. - Demonstration on the Rapidan, including engagement of Morton's Ford and skirmishes at Barnett's and Culpeper Fords, Va.

REPORTS, ETC. +

Numbers 1. - Itinerary of the First Army Corps.

Numbers 2. - Major General Gouverneur K. Warren, U. S. Army, commanding Second Army Corps.

Numbers 3. - Brigadier General John C. Caldwell, U. S. Army, commanding Second Army Corps and First Division.

Numbers 4. - Brigadier General Alexander S. Webb, U. S. Army, commanding Second Division.

Numbers 5. - Colonel De Witt C. Baxter, Seventy-second Pennsylvania Infantry, commanding First Brigade.

Numbers 6. - Captain William H. Fogler, Nineteenth Maine Infantry.

Numbers 7. - Captain Samuel J. Fletcher, Fifteenth Massachusetts Infantry. Numbers 8. - Colonel Henry W. Hudson, Eighty-second New York Infantry.

Numbers 9. - Lieutenant Colonel George W. Thompson, One hundred and fifty- second New York Infantry.

Numbers 10. - Brigadier General Alexander Hays, U. S. Army, commanding Third Division.

Numbers 11. - Colonel Samuel S. Carroll, Eighth Ohio Infantry, commanding First Brigade.

Numbers 12. - Colonel Charles J. Powers, One hundred and eighth New York Infantry, commanding Second Brigade.

Numbers 13. - Lieutenant Colonel Samuel A. Moore, Fourteenth Connecticut Infantry.

Numbers 14. - Captain George M. Dewey, Tenth New York Battalion Infantry.

Numbers 15. - Brigadier General Joshua T. Owen, U. S. Army, commanding Third Division.

Numbers 16. - Lieutenant Colonel James G. Hughes, Thirty-ninth New York Infantry.

Numbers 17. - Lieutenant Colonel Isaac M. Lusk, One hundred and eleventh New York Infantry.

Numbers 18. - Colonel Levin Crandell, One hundred and twenty-fifth new York Infantry.

Numbers 19. - Colonel James M. Bull, One hundred and twenty-sixth New York Infantry.

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*Ormsby was executed February 7, 1864.

+See also dispatches from Butler, Halleck, and Sedgwick, February 3-8, in Correspondence, &c., post.

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