GRAFTON, April 20, 1864.

Major-General STAHEL,

Chief of Cavalry:

I will wait at Grafton.

WM. W. AVERELL,

Brigadier-General.

GRAFTON, April 20, 1864.

(Received 1.15 a. m., 21st.)

Major General JULIUS STAHEL:

Here.

WH. W. AVERELL,

Brigadier-General.

GRAFTON, VA., April 20, 1864.

Brigadier General W. W. AVERELL,

Grafton, Va.:

You will please order the First Virginia and Fourteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry to proceed without delay by railroad to Parkersburg, and thence by land to Charleston, Va., to report to Brigadier-General Crook. The detachments now at Webster and Clarksburg of the First New York Veterans, First New York (Lincoln), and Twenty-first New York Cavalry, you will order back to Martinsburg, Va., as soon as transportation can be furnished; if General Crook desires Ewing's battery you will send it to him.

JUL. STAHEL,

Major-General.

MARTINSBURG, April 20, 1864.

(Received Cumberland, 12.20 a. m., 21st.)

Lieutenant THOMAS H. WELLSTED,

Acting Assistant Adjutant-General:

Everything quiet along the line. Scouts not returned. Another scout starts to-morrow morning at 3 o'clock for Berryville and Snicker' Ferry. I have ordered 25 cavalry to Kearneysville and 25 men to Duffield's to operate with the infantry.

R. F. TAYLOR,

Colonel.

WASHINGTON, D. C., April 20, 1864-10.40 a. m.

Major-General POPE,

Milwaukee, Wis.:

Lieutenant-General Grant directs that you send all the infantry you can possibly spare to Washington at once.

H. W. HALLECK,

Major-General, Chief of Staff.

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