WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, April 1, 1864.

Major General B. F. BUTLER,

Fort Monroe, Va.:

General Weitzel will be relieved from duty in the Department of the Gulf, and ordered to report to you for assignment to duty.

By order of the Secretary of War:

JAMES A. HARDIE,

Colonel and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

FORT MONROE, VA., April 2, 1864--11. 30 a. m.

(Received 11. 55 a. m.)

Major General H. W. HALLECK,

Chief of Staff:

I should have been in Washington to-day but for a storm, still raging to such an extent as to make navigation in the Chesapeake unsafe. I leave here as soon as the storm subsides.

U. S. GRANT,

Lieutenant-General.

SIGNAL STATION, GARNETT'S MOUNTAIN,

April 2, 1864.

Major-General WARREN:

No change in enemy's camps.

FULLER,

Signal Officer.

HDQRS. CAVALRY CORPS, ARMY OF THE POTOMAC,
April 2, 1864.

Brigadier-General KILPATRICK,

Commanding Third Cavalry Division:

GENERAL: In compliance with instructions which have been received from Major-General Humphreys, chief of staff, Army of the Potomac, the general commanding directs that you withdraw temporarily the detachment of your command at Grove Church to some point near Morrisville. The supplies for this detachment can be drawn from Bealeton.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

E. B. PARSONS,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF WEST VIRGINIA,
Cumberland, Md., April 2, 1864.

Lieutenant General U. S. GRANT,

Army in the Field:

GENERAL: I have the honor to submit the following report:

The two Maryland regiments at Harper's Ferry having been furloughed on the 29th, as General Sullivan informs me, there can be assembled at Beverly only 5,635 men, infantry, leaving six regiments