HDQRS. ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, SIGNAL DEPT.,
February 9, 1864.

Major- General HUMPHREYS, Chief of Staff:

GENERAL: The following report has just been received, and is respectfully forwarded;

PONY MOUNTAIN SIGNAL STATION,

February 9, 1864- 5 p. m.

Captain NORTON:

The enemy occupy their old camps along the river, but I see no new ones whatever. The pickets have been strengthened at the fords. In the vicinity of Walker's Springs a smoke has been visible to- day, and also at a point 10 miles south of there, on the Madison and Gordonsville pike. I judge the former camp smoke, and the latter burning brush. At north base of Fox Mountain a smoke has been seen this p. m., also like brush- burning.

PAINE,

Signal Officer.

Very respectfully, &c.,

L. B. NORTON,

Captain and Chief Signal Officer, Army of the Potomac.

FAIRFAX COURT- HOUSE, February 9, 1864.

(Received 3. 15 p. m.)

Lieutenant Colonel J. H. TAYLOR,

Assistant Adjutant- General:

I have heard of a force below the railroad on the Accotink, and have just sent out a squadron of cavalry and two companies of infantry to look for them, with a guide who has seen the rebels.

R. O. TYLER,

Brigadier- General.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS NINTH ARMY CORP,

Numbers 2.
SPECIAL SERVICE

New York, February 9, 1864.

I. Brigadier General R. B. Potter, U. S. Volunteers, is hereby detailed as chief of recruiting service for Ninth Army Corps in the State of New York.

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III. Brigadier- General Harland, U. S. Volunteers, is hereby detailed as chief of recruiting service for the original regiments of what formerly composed the Third Division of the Ninth Army Corps in the State of Connecticut.

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By command of Major- General Burnside:

EDWARD M. NEILL,

Assistant Adjutant- General.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. EIGHTEENTH ARMY CORPS, Numbers 18.
Fort Monroe, Va., February 9, 1864.

Brigadier General Charles K. Graham, U. S. Volunteers, is hereby placed in command of all army gun- boats in this department, and will be obeyed and respected accordingly.

By command of Major General B. F. Butler:

R. S. DAVIS,

Major and Assistant Adjutant- General.