as to enable you to saddle up in time. Keep up your supplies from Kearnsville, and in case you are driven from your position fall back to Kearnesville, keeping this brigade instantly notified of your movements. Do not invite attack or offer battle by sending out large parties. Recall the regiment sent out and substitute in place small patrols which can go quickly and far to examine the roads. Keep a mobile picket in the vicinity of North Mountain. The object is rest and recuperation.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

WM. W. AVERELL,

Brigadier-General.

HEADQUARTERS CAVALRY DIVISION, DEPARTMENT OF WEST VIRGINIA,
September 11, 1864.

Colonel J. M. SCHOONMAKER,

Commanding First Brigade:

COLONEL: My order to you was not the result of the report of the scout; the object was stated at the end of the order. I would prefer to have you in the position this side of the bridge, but you may remain to-night where you are, and wait also where you are to-morrow until you hear from me.

Respectfully, your obedient servant,

WM. W. AVERELL,

Brigadier-General.

HEADQUARTERS,
Stony Point, September 11, 1864.

(Received Cumberland 4 a. m. 13th.)

Major-General KELLEY:

The commanding general directs that you send at once to rejoin their regiments the four companies of the Eleventh West Virginia Infantry at New Creek; also the detachments at Parkersburg. All detachments, officers and men of regiments here in the field, at present in the lines of your command, he wishes forwarded without delay to their regiments.

P. G. BIER,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF WASHINGTON, 22ND ARMY CORPS,
September 12, 1864.

Major-General SHERIDAN,

Commanding Middle Division, Berryville, Va.:

There is not sufficient of men in Martin's battery to make it a horse battery. Do you it sent as it is, a light battery? The cavalry are all ready to accompany it, and will be sent the moment I hear from you.

C. C. AUGUR,

Major-General, Commanding.