ADDENDA.

FEBRUARY 28, 1864.

COMMANDING OFFICER SECOND CORPS:

Please send the following confidential dispatch to General Kilpatrick. The signal telegraph is just reported out of order. Let me know when Kilpatrick receives it.

FEBRUARY 28, 1864-6. 15 p. m.

Brigadier-General KILPATRICK:

The major-general commanding directs that you move to-night.

A. A. HUMPHREYS,

Major-General and Chief of Staff.

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, March 14, 1864.

Major-General PLEASONTON,
Commanding Cavalry Corps:

The major-general commanding directs that careful inquiry be made to ascertain whether Colonel Dahlgren made or issued such an address to his command as that which has been published in the journals of to-day; and also whether any orders or directions of the character of those contained in the memorandum following the address were given to his command or to any part of it.

Very respectfully, &c.,

A. A. HUMPHREYS,

Major-General and Chief of Staff.

HDQRS. CAVALRY CORPS, ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, March 14, 1864.

Brigadier General J. KILPATRICK,
Commanding Third Cavalry Division:

GENERAL: The major-general commanding directs that careful inquires be made to ascertain whether Colonel Dahlgren made or issued such an address to his command as that which has been published in the journals of the day. Every effort will be made by you to learn the truth of this matter, and the officers and men of his command will be carefully questioned on this point, and the result of the investigation and whatever you may yours know of the matter will be reported at the earliest practicable moment.

The general also desires to know whether any orders or directions of the character of those contained in the "memorandum" following the address, as printed in the public journals, were given to his command or to any portion of it.

Very respectfully, general, your obedient servant,

E. B. PARSONS,

Captain and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.