SPECIAL ORDERS, HDQRS. DEPT. OF THE SUSQUEHANNA, No. 234.
Chambersburg, Pa., October 5, 1864.

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3. Colonel Charles Albright, Two hundred and second Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, having completed the special duties assigned him in paragraph 7, Special Orders, No. 222, from these headquarters, is hereby relieved from duty in this department, and will proceed without delay from Chambersburg, Pa., to Washington, D. C., and report to Major General C. C. Augur, Commanding Department of Washington, for orders.

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5. The section of Keystone Battery, 100-days' Pennsylvania Artillery, commanded by Lieutenant John Roberts, is hereby relieved from duty in Columbia County, Pa., and will proceed without delay, by railroad, to Philadelphia and report to Captain M. Hastings, commanding company, for orders. The quartermaster's department will furnish the necessary transportation.

By command of Major-General Couch:

JNO. S. SCHULTZE,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

WAR DEPARTMENT, ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE,

Washington, October 5, 1864.

Major General J. A. DIX,

Comdg. Department of the East, New York, City N. Y.:

Designate one of the three regiments U. S. Infantry (Third, Sixth, and Seventh), now in New York Harbor, and put it en route for this city, with orders to report to General Augur, commanding Department of Washington. All detached officers and men of regiment designated on duty in Department of the East, except those detached by orders from this Department,w ill join and accompany it. Acknowledge receipt by telegraph. Please report your action to this office.

By order of the Secretary of War:

R. WILLIAMS,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE EAST,
October 5, 1864.

General E. D. TOWNSEND,

Assistant Adjutant-General, Washington, D. C.:

Telegram received. The Third U. S. Infantry will be sent to General Augur, at Washington, D. C.

JOHN A. DIX,

Major-General.

STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA, EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,

Wheeling, October 6, 1864.

Hon EDWIN M. STANTON,

Secretary of War:

SIR: When in Washington a short time since, you will recollect i laid before you the exposed condition of the State and its liability to raids from the enemy at any moment. Since that time several counties of