BALTIMORE, MD., October 17, 1864.

General TOWNSEND,

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

The One hundred and sixteenth and One hundred and eighteenth U. S. Colored Troops have arrived, and arrangements have been made to equip them and forward them without delay to City Point.

SAML. B. LAWRENCE,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HDQRS. MIDDLE DEPARTMENT, EIGHTH ARMY CORPS,
Baltimore, Md., October 17, 1864.

Brigadier General E. B. TYLER,

Relay House, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad:

I have ordered three companies infantry from Fort McHenry to report to you at Relay House. They will go as soon as train is ready. I am doing all I can. Have asked General Augur to hurry up your cavalry which is at his depot.

SAML. B. LAWRENCE.

HDQRS. MIDDLE DEPARTMENT, EIGHTH ARMY CORPS,
Baltimore, Md., October 17, 1864.

Brevet Brigadier General W. W. MORRIS,

Commanding Officer Second Separate Brigade, Fort McHenry:

Send three companies Fifth Massachusetts Militia to report to Brigadier General E. B. Tyler, at the Relay House, at once. Issue forty rounds ammunition and three days' rations. A train is ordered to be at the railroad crossing near the fort as soon as possible.

By command of Major-General Wallace:

SAML. B. LAWRENCE,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

BALTIMORE, MD., October 17, 1864.

Brigadier-General LOCKWOOD,

Commanding Officer Third Brigade:

GENERAL: I have the honor to inform you that there is urgent necessity for more mounted men in General Tyler's district, and to request you to issue orders to have the company of mounted infantry, Company K, One hundred and ninety-fourth Pennsylvania Volunteers, sent here at once, and send them to report to General Tyler as soon as they arrive. It is the general's intention to form a cavalry company of the re-enlisted men of the First Eastern Shore Maryland Volunteers. By bringing up your company now they can probably be of some service, and will then be where they can turn over the horses and equipments to the company designated when their term of service expires. General Augur has just telegraphed that Mosby is moving forward again, and Tyler is very weak in cavalry-his dismounted men being yet in Washington getting their horses. Will you please give the necessary orders to have company of mounted infantry brought up at once. I will be where the