Baltimore. This command will include all forces that now are or may be hereafter assigned to duty in that section of country within this department in the country of Frederick, the counties of Carroll, Harford, the counties of the Eastern Shore of Maryland, and the city and county of Baltimore, except Forst Carroll, McHerny, Marshall, Federal Hill, and their vicinities, now within the limits of the Second Separate Brigade.

By order of Major-General Wallace:

SAMUEL B. LAWRENCE,

Lieutenant-Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.

WAR DEPARTMENT, March 25, 1864-2. 15 p. m.

Lieutenant-General GRANT:

If you have no objection, I propose to forbid all newspaper telegraphic communications between here and your headquarters, and all use of the telegraph save for military purposes.

EDWIN M. STANTON.

WAR DEPARTMENT, March 25, 1864-2. 15 p. m.

Lieutenant-General GRANT:

It would for several reasons be better to address your communications to the Chief of the Staff of the Army, except where you desire to communicate with me directly. Where my directions are needed he will communicate with me.

EDWIN M. STANTON,

Secretary of War.

WAR DEPARTMENT, March 25, 1864-4. 35 p. m.

Major-General MEADE,

Headquarters Army of the Potomac:

The Vermont people are very anxious that Colonel Grant should retain his present command and be made a brigadier. The State is entitle to it if he is qualified. Shall I nominate him?

EDWIN M. STANTON,

Secretary of War.

HDQRS. ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, March 25, 1864.

(Received 11 p. m.)

Honorable E. M. STANTON:

Colonel Grant has been frequently recommended for promotion, and the last time by my approval. He will make a good brigadier-general, and I approve of his nomination.

GEO. G. MEADE,
Major-General.