ceived from headquarters cavalry, Middle Military Division. One section of artillery will report to you at 4 o'clock this morning. You will take the Second Ohio Cavalry with you, but leave the picket line as it is at present until further orders.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

L. SIEBERT,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

NOVEMBER 8, 1864 - 2.45 a. m.

Captain D. R. RANSOM,

Commanding Battery C, Third U. S. Artillery:

You will order one section from your battery, under a commissioned officer, to get ready to report to Colonel A. C. M. Pennington, commanding First Brigade, at 4 o'clock this morning. The men will take three days' rations and all the forage they have with them.

By command of Brevet Major-General Custer:

L. SIEBERT,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS MIDDLE MILITARY DIVISION,
Cedar Creek, November 8, 1864.

Brigadier-General STEVENSON,

Commanding Military District of Harper's Ferry:

GENERAL: Your communication of the 2nd instant received. The general instructs me to say that the Reserve Brigade of cavalry was sent back some days since to protect the working parties on the Winchester road and the road as completed back to Harper's Ferry. There is no objection to the commanding officer of Winchester sending the returns of his command through you, but the position of that garrison, the changes in the troops stationed there, and important relations that it bears to this army, are such that it must remain as at present, under the immediate control and direction of the major-general commanding. The general desires to be informed of the progress that has been made in the railroad.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

JAS. W. FORSYTH,

Lieutenant-Colonel and Chief of Staff.

HEADQUARTERS,
Harper's Ferry, November 8, 1864.

General SEWARD,

Martinsburg:

Have your scouts returned? Anything from Winchester to-day?

JOHN D. STEVENSON,

Brigadier-General.