CUMBERLAND, MD., April 13, 1864-11. 30 a. m.

Brigadier-General CROOK,

Charleston, W. Va.:

The following dispatch is just received from Washington:

The Eighth Ohio Cavalry is at Columbus, Ohio. By special order from this office of the 7th instant it was ordered to be mounted and equipped as rapidly as possible, and ordered to Deapartment of West Virginia.

THOMAS M. VINCENT,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

I will telegraph to General Heintzelman about it.

F. SIGEL,

Major-General.

FORT MONROE, April 13, 1864.

(Received 6. 25 p. m.)

Honorable E. M. STANTON,

Secretary of War:

I have need of a large guard for provost and other duties at Norfolk. I desire all able-bodied men I have in the field. Can you send me a battalion or regiment of the Veteran Reserve or Invalid Corps for the purpose of such provost-guard duties?

BENJ. F. BUTLER,

Major-General, Commanding.

FORT MONROE, April 13, 1864.

(Received 6. 30 p. m.)

Honorable E. M. STANTON:

Special order received requiring the sending of 200 unassigned men of the Sixteenth New York Artillery to the Sixth New York Heavy Artillery, Army of the Potomac. Colonel Morrison, commanding, reports that when those ordered to be discharged become unfit for service and transferred to the Veteran Reserve Corps, and those who have voluntarily enlisted to fill up other New York regiments in this department are taken from his regiment, there will be none left. I can send 443, not a man of whom is fit for duty, and never was since they were enlisted in the regiment. I await instructions, but we have no unassigned recruits of that regiment.

BENJ. F. BUTLER,

Major-General, Commanding.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
WAR DEPT., ADJT. GENERAL'S OFFICE, Numbers 146.
Washington, April 13, 1864.

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52. Major General W. F. Smith, U. S. Volunteers, ordered to report to Major-General Butler March 31, 1864, is assigned to duty as of that date under the orders of General Butler.

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By order of the Secretary of War:

E. D. TOWNSEND,
Assistant Adjutant-General.