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Division (formerly the Fourth Division), Department of West Virginia, and Colonel Moor will report by letter to General Sullivan at Grafton for orders.
Batteries B, Fifth U. S. Artillery, and D, First West Virginia Artillery, will report for the present to General Sullivan.
Battery B, First West Virginia Artillery, will remain attached to Colonel Moor's brigade until further orders.
III. Brigadier General Max Weber having reported for duty at these headquarters, under orders of the War Department, is hereby assigned to the command of the defense of Harper's Ferry, and of all the troops stationed there and on the railroad between Sleepy Creek and the Monocacy, formerly belonging to the First Division, commanded by Brigadier General J. C. Sullivan.
The troops mentioned will be organized into a separate brigade, to be known as the First Separate Brigade, Department of West Virginia.
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By order of Major General F. Sigel:
T. MELVIN,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
CHARLESTON, April 9, 1864.
(Received 10th.)
Major General F. SIGEL:
GENERAL: Will you please send me the Fifth and Seventh Virginia Regiments of Cavalry instead of the Twentieth Pennsylvania Cavalry? Please send them at once.
Respectfully,
GEORGE CROOK,
Brigadier-General.
WINCHESTER, April 9, 1864.
(Received 10 a. m.)
General W. W. AVERELL:
GENERAL: I arrived in Winchester early this morning; no enemy in this place. After the skirmish took place yesterday the rebels fell back through the town on the Strasburg pike; made no halt. I will go to Newtown. The number, according to the best information I can get, was about 100 men, under command of Major Calmese and Captain Ross.
Very respectfully,
F. G. MARTINDALE,
Captain, First New York Cavalry.
HEADQUARTERS THIRD BRIGADE CAVALRY,
Charleston, W. Va., April 9, 1864.Colonel F. E. FRANKLIN,
Commanding Thirty-fourth Regiment Mounted Ohio Vol. Inf.:
SIR: You will please order one squadron from your command, of not less than 100 men, to proceed to Barboursville or into Cabell
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