WAR DEPARTMENT,

Washington, D. C., October 7, 1864.

Major-General WALLACE,

Baltimore:

It is reported that a small guerrilla band has been at Sandy Springs, on Mechanicsville and Baltimore road, destroying property. Some cavalry should be sent down from Ellicott's Mills to intercept them.

H. W. HALLECK,

Major-General and Chief of Staff.

HDQRS. MIDDLE DEPARTMENT, EIGHTH ARMY CORPS,
Baltimore, Md., October 7, 1864.

Major-General HALLECK,

Chief of Staff:

Your dispatch received. The cavalry will be sent at once.

LEW. WALLACE,

Major-General, Commanding.

HDQRS. MIDDLE DEPARTMENT, EIGHTH ARMY CORPS,
Baltimore, Md., October 7, 1864.

Brigadier General E. B. TYLER,

Relay House, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad:

A small body of guerrillas are reported at Sandy Spring, on Mechanicsville and Baltimore road, destroying property. General Halleck directs that some cavalry be sent to intercept them. Please do it at once. Acknowledge receipt.

SAML. B. LAWRENCE,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS, HDQRS. DEPT. OF THE SUSQUEHANNA,
Chambersburg, Pa., September 7, 1864.

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10. Captain C. B. Hebble, Independent Mounted Company 100-days' Pennsylvania Volunteers, will send, without delay, all of Captain Warren's Independent Mounted Company 100-days' Pennsylvania Volunteers, now at Mercersburg, to Chambersburg, Pa., with directions to report to the assistant adjutant-general of the department for orders.

By command of Major-General Couch:

JNO. S. SCHULTZE,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE EAST,
New York City, October 7, 1864.

Brigadier General E. D. TOWNSEND,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

GENERAL: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of telegram from War Department (signed by Major R. Williams) dated October 6,