CUMBERLAND, October 25, 1864-12 m.

Brevet Major-General KELLEY,

Whelling, W. Va.:

Lou McAller says a force is congregating about Slane's Cross-Roads, for the purpose of capturing the garrison at Green Spring; probably the same reported by Major Mearcy. I will inform Colonel Wynkoop of this also. Petrie'siron clads are here. Can get no engine.

C. A. FREEMAN,

Lieutenant and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

HDQRS. FIRST SEPARATE BRIGADIER, DEPT. OF WEST VIRGINIA, October 25, 1864. (Received 3.10 p. m.)

Captain R. P. KENNEDY:

Mather went to Gauley River yesterday. Rebels have shown a force at foot Cotton Hill nd across Gauley River. Have prevented them crossing either river thus far. Reports still come in that Breckinridge is coming with his command.

JOHN H. OLEY,
Colonel, Commanding.

CITY POINT, VA., October 26, 1864-8.30 p. m.

(Received 9 p. m.)

Major General H. W. HALLECK,

Washington, D. C.:

The papers announce that Custer has been made a major-general. Is it possible he has been made a full major-general, and Crook, who commands a department, left only a major-general by brevet?

U. S. GRANT,

Lieutenant-General.

WAR DEPARTMENT, October 26, 1864-10. 30 p. m.

Lieutenant-General GRANT:

Crook was appointed a full major-general immediately upon the vacancy created by general upon the urgent and repeated solicitation of General Sheridan. The newspapers are not good authority for the action of the Department.

EDWIN M. STANTON,

Secretary of War.

ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, October 26, 1864.

Major-General SHERIDAN,

Strasburg, Va.:

The Secretary of War desires you to order the Eighteenth Connecticut Volunteers to be at New Haven the 2nd of November, and the Second