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ALEXANDRIA, February 15, 1864-10. 25 p. m.
Colonel TAYLOR,
Chief of Staff and Assistant Adjutant-General:
COLONEL: My men have scouted as usual to-day. No enemy was seen. Mosby was reported at Difficult Creek yesterday.
H. H. WELLS,
Lieutenant-Colonel, Provost-Marshal-General.
HDQRS. FIRST DIVISION, DEPT. OF WEST VIRGINIA,
Harper's Ferry, February 15, 1864.Brigadier General B. F. KELLEY,
Commanding Department of West Virginia:
GENERAL: If it meets with your approval, I propose sending my cavalry up the valley as far as they can go, at the same time sending a party through Front Royal and Luray to try and cut the railroad at Waynesborough. I have a fine cavalry command, and I think it will be of benefit to them to go on such an expedition. If Averell's command could be sent to Moorefield and Petersburg at the same time, I think I could reach Harrisonburg, or even Staunton, without trouble.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
JER. C. SULLIVAN,
Brigadier-General.
CUMBERLAND, February 15, 1864.
Colonel MULLIGAN,
New Creek:
Deserters report to Colonel Hall at Beverly that Jackson's command had received their horses and are now mounted. General Jenkins in command, and had sent a mounted force to Franklin, in Pendleton County.
B. F. KELLEY,
Brigadier-General.
CUMBERLAND, February 15, 1864.
Colonel MULLIGAN,
New Creek:
Please send a company to the bridge east of Bloomington, with instructions to put up the block-house. The timbers I believe are on the ground. Great apprehensions are felt for the safety of the shops and machinery at Piedmont. This company will command the Bloomington road as well as protect the bridge.
B. F. KELLEY,
Brigadier-General.
YORKTOWN, February 15, 1864.
Colonel J. W. SHAFFER,
Chief of Staff:
The captures by the cavalry and gun-boat at Potopotank were one small empty schooner, one sloop with 200 bushels of corn, and one boat. The gun-boat having brought them down, have reported them as their capture to Treasury agent, so I have not interfered.
I. J. WISTAR,
Brigadier-General.
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