HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF WEST VIRGINIA,
Cumberland, April 11, 1864.

Lieutenant-General GRANT, Culpeper Court House:

Your dispatch in regard to the Thirty-sixth Ohio and Lieutenant Meigs is received.

F. SIGEL,

Major-General.

CUMBERLAND, MD., April 11, 1864-11. 30 a. m.

(Received 12. 30 p. m.)

ADJUTANT-GENERAL U. S. ARMY:

The following telegram from Colonel George D. Wells, at Harper's Ferry, is just received:

The railroad bridge will be impassable for seven days. The village bridge is uninjured, but wholly taken up. If the water falls it may be laid in two days.

FRANZ SIGEL,

Major-General.

CUMBERLAND, MD., April 11, 1864.

(Received 12. 30 p. m.)

Major General C. C. AUGUR, Washington:

The following dispatch from General Averell, at Martinsburg, is just received:

Commanding officer at Point of Rocks telegraphs he is reliably informed that there is a party of 300 rebel at Waterford, and some in sight on the opposite bank.

FRANZ SIGEL,

Major-General.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF WEST VIRGINIA,
Cumberland, Md., April 11, 1864.

Brigadier General W. W. AVERELL,

Commanding Cavalry Division, Martinsburg, W. Va.:

GENERAL: By orders this day issued the Seventh West Virginia Cavalry was transferred to the Third Division. The general commanding department directs me to state that this order was founded on what he deemed, after a careful view of the circumstances, the necessities of the public service. He would have been pleased to have allowed it to remain with you, but decided that its services were imperatively demanded in the Kanawha Valley.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

T. MELVIN,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

MARTINSBURG, April 11, 1864.

(Received 2. 20 a. m., 12th.)

Major General J. STAHEL, Chief of Cavalry:

I need 3,500 horses to mount my command now here, and I presume 1,000 will be required to mount those to return. The arms