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ERIE, November 3, 1864. [Received 3.45 p.m.]
Brigadier General E. D. TOWNSEND:
All quiet here. Arrangements are being made to protect the city. Matters are so threatening in Clearfield County and two other points as to ask for 500 infantrymen to be sent to Harrisburg to report to me.
I leave for Harrisburg this evening.
D. N. COUCH.
SPECIAL ORDERS, HDQRS. DEPT. OF THE SUSQUEHANNA, No. 262. Chambersburg, Pa., November 3, 1864.* * * * *
9. Captain L. B. Norton, Signal Corps, U. S. Army, is hereby relieved from duty as chief signal officer of the Department of the Susquehanna, in accordance with paragraph 41, Special Orders, No. 368, War Department, Adjutant-General's Office, October 27, 1864.
By command of Major-General Couch:
JNO. S. SCHULTZE,
Assistant Adjutant-General.NEW YORK CITY, November 3, 1864. [Received 4 p.m.]
Honorable E. M. STANTON,
Secretary of War:
General Butler has arrived and presented his order. It seems to contemplate that he is to be in the city, in command of the troops to be sent here. This is not the weak point; it is on the frontier from Saint Albans to Buffalo, and at least half of the troops should go there. I write to know whether disposition of the troops is in my discretion. I should not make the inquiry but for the peculiar from of the order.
JNO. A. DIX,
Major-General.
CONFIDENTIAL.] WAR DEPARTMENT, November 3, 1864.
Major-General DIX,
New York:
You will understand that in assigning General Butler to report to you it is not designed in any way to impair or interfere with your supreme command, but is only a brief, temporary arrangement, which affords the only chance of getting a sufficient force to serve your purpose in the present emergency. I shall write to you to-day at large.
EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of War.
WAR DEPARTMENT, November 3, 1864.
Major-General DIX,
New York:
When you called for several thousand troops it was supposed that some danger more than mere raiding and robbing parties from Canada required to be guarded against, and that the public peace might be
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