Ninth Corps: F, First Pennsylvania, 6 guns; G, First New York, 6 guns; Third New Jersey Battery, 6 guns; Sixth Maine, 4 guns; batteries, 4; guns, 22. Company C, Fourth New York Artillery, 6 Coehorn mortars.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

JNumbers G. HAZARD,

Major, Commanding.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. ARTILLERY Brigadier, SECOND CORPS,

Numbers 199.
December 1, 1864.

I. The commanding officers of the following-named batteries will hold their commands in readiness for an immediate movement: Eleventh New York Battery, Twelfth New York Battery, Battery B, First Rhode Island Artillery, and First New Hampshire Battery.

II. The commanding officer of Battery B, First New Jersey Artillery, will hold himself in readiness to move three of his guns into Fort Gregg at short notice for the purpose of relieving the First New Hampshire Battery.

By command of Major John G. Hazard:

U. D. EDDY,

Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS FIRST DIVISION, SECOND ARMY CORPS,
December 1, 1864.

Major SEPTIMUS CARNCROSS,

Assistant Adjutant-General, Second Army Corps:

MAJOR: I have the honor to report the following commanding officers of the garrisons of the forts upon the line of this division and the regiment from which each garrison is furnished: Fort Fisher, 150 men of Twenty-sixth Michigan Volunteers, Major N. Church commanding; Fort Welch, 175 men of One hundred and fortieth Pennsylvania Volunteers, Captain W. A. F. Stockton commanding; Fort Gregg, 75 men of One hundred and forty-eighth Pennsylvania Volunteers, Captain James F. Weaver commanding; Fort Sampson, 75 men of One hundred and forty-eighth Pennsylvania Volunteers, Captain A. A. Rhinehart commanding.

Very respectfully,

N. A. MILES,

Brigadier-General, Commanding.

HEADQUARTERS SECOND CORPS,
December 1, 1864.

General MILES:

The signal officer reports that the enemy advanced their picket-line 100 or 150 yards during the night at a point about northwest from these headquarters and in front of Fort Welch. The corps officer of the day made no report to that effect. Will you ask your division officer of the day (for yesterday) how far this statement of the signal officer is well founded?

A. A. HUMPHREYS,

Major-General, Commanding.