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HDQRS. FOURTH DIV., DEPARTMENT OF WEST VIRGINIA,
Martinsburg, January 11, 1864.Brigadier General B. F. KELLEY,
Commanding Department, Cumberland:
I have no news yet. Sent a reconnoitering party to Winchester last night. I have the country properly picketed and patrolled from North Mountain to the Opequon. I do not think, judging from what I have seen and heard, that this section has ever been thoroughly and properly picketed, which may account for occasional surprises.
WM. W. AVERELL,
Brigadier-General.
HDQRS. FOURTH DIV., DEPARTMENT OF WEST VIRGINIA,
Martinsburg, January 11, 1864.Brigadier General B. F. KELLEY,
Commanding Department, Cumberland:
Scout returned from Winchester reports all quiet. Brings in two ladies from Montgomery County, who report having seen General Early on Saturday, 9th instant, moving up the valley with his forces 10 miles beyond Woodstock.
WM. W. AVERELL,
Brigadier-General.
SPECIAL ORDERS,
WAR DEPT., ADJT. GENERAL'S OFFICE, Numbers 16.
Washington, January 12, 1864.* * *
57. Ordered, That Major-General Hancock be, and he is hereby, assigned to recruit and fill up the Second Army Corps, of which he is commander, to the number of 50,000 men, for such duty as may be specially assigned to said corps by the War Department.
58. Ordered, That Major-General Burnside be, and is hereby, assigned to recruit and fill up the Ninth Army Corps, of which he is commander, to the number of 50,000 men for such duty as may be specially assigned to said corps by the War Department.
By order of the Secretary of War:
E. D. TOWNSEND,
Assistant Adjutant-General.BALD KNOB SIGNAL STATION,
January 12, 1864-12 m.
COMMANDING OFFICER FIRST ARMY CORPS:
Too misty this a. m. for reliable observations. Some rebel drums just heard.
WIGGINS and CAMP,
Signal Officers.
HEADQUARTERS FIRST BRIGADE,
January 12, 1864-10. 30 p. m.Captain H. C. WEIR, Assistant Adjutant-General:
CAPTAIN: A colored man has just come in the lines, and reports that about 1 miles outside our pickets on the Bealeton road, about 9
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