HEADQUARTERS CAVALRY, MIDDLE MILITARY DIVISION,
October 11, 1864-9 p.m.

General MERRITT:

GENERAL: The chief of cavalry directs that you send a reconnaissance of one regiment up the pike to-morrow a.m. as far as your camp last night. Let the commanding officer obtain all the information possible, and whether or not the enemy have any organized body of cavalry in that vicinity. General Custer will send up the Back road.

Very respectfully, &c.,

WM. RUSSELL, JR.,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS MIDDLE MILITARY DIVISION,
October 11, 1864.

Colonel EDWARDS,

Commanding U. S. Forces, Winchester, Va.:

COLONEL: The major-general commanding directs that you send with the Sixth Corps train, which go out on the Front Royal road from Winchester, a guard of 800 men, to be taken from the Provisional Brigade, together 3,500 strong, sent up from Harper's Ferry. All men belonging to the Sixth Corps with this Provisional Brigade will be sent out with the Sixth Corps wagons to Front Royal, and other men from the same troops to make the guard at least 800 strong. The guard for the army trains, to be 800 or 1,000 men, will also be taken from the Provisional Brigade, reserving Colonel Currie's brigade for a future escort. This train for the Sixth Corps will be sent out from Winchester in time to reach Front Royal before the 13th instant.

I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

C. KINGSBURY, JR.,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

WASHINGTON, October 11, 1864-12.40 p.m.

Colonel S. B. LAWRENCE,

Baltimore, Md.:

Mosby has not crossed the Potomac, and probably will not. Nevertheless, General Tyler's forces should remain in the field for the present. He should be left free to move as he may deem best against any guerrillas ha may hear of.

H. W. HALLECK,

Major-General and Chief of Staff.

HDQRS. SECOND SEPARATE BRIGADIER, EIGHTH ARMY CORPS,
Defenses of Baltimore, Fort McHenry, Md., October 11, 1864.

Lieutenant Colonel SAMUEL B. LAWRENCE,

Assistant Adjutant-General, Hdqrs. Middle Department:

SIR: I have the honor to report that the following is the distribution of the troops for duty in the Second Separate Brigade, Eighth Army Corps, this p.m.:

Fort McHenry: Field, staff, and band, Second U. S. Artillery-officers, 4; men 91. Ninety-first New York Veteran Volunteers-officers, 13; men 901.