RICHMOND, April 25, 1864.

General S. COOPER,

Adjutant-General:

GENERAL: Please order Gracie's brigade from Buckner's department to Richmond, and Colquitt's from South Carolina and Georgia to Wilmington. Order by telegraph, and troops to move by rail.

BRAXTON BRAGG,

General.

[APRIL 25?, 1864.]

Major-General ELZEY:

One of my men has just come in. Left Frederick Monday night; crossed Potomac north of Shepherdstown Tuesday night; passed over Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, a mile from Kearneysville, Wednesday night. The Government had possession of the railroad all the previous week and were moving troops up the railroad beyond Martinsburg all the week-infantry and artillery. They stated they were going to make a raid up the Kanawha Valley. No troops at Frederick, along the railroad, nor at Martinsburg, except guard for railroad.

Your obedient servant,

BRADLEY T. JOHNSTON.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
ADJT. AND INSP. GENERAL'S OFFICE, No. 96. Richmond, Va., April 25, 1864.

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XVIII. Brigadier General G. C. Wharton, with the troops under his command (the Fifty-first Regiment and the Thirtieth Battalion Virginia Volunteers), will proceed by railroad to Dublin Depot, Va., and report for duty to Major General J. C. Breckinridge, commanding, &c.

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XXXII. Major General R. Ransom, jr., is assigned to the command of the Department of Richmond, and will relieve Major General A. Elzey. The latter, on being relieved, will repair to Staunton, where he will establish his headquarters as commander of the Maryland Line.

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By command of the Secretary of War:

JNO. WITHERS,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA, April 26, 1864.

Honorable JAMES A. SEDDON,

Secretary of War, Richmond, Va.:

SIR: General Nicholls, commanding at Lynchburg, seems to find some difficulty with regard to the command of the reserves in the counties adjacent to that post. It is important that the question of