HEADQUARTERS MIDDLE MILITARY DIVISION,
November 10, 1864.

Major General GEORGE CROOK,

Commanding Army of West Virginia:

GENERAL: The major-general commanding directs that you withdraw the brigade left by you at Newtown to-night

Very respectfully,

JAS. W. FORSYTH,

Lieutenant-Colonel and Chief of Staff.

SPECIAL ORDERS, HDQRS. SECOND CAVALRY DIVISION, No. 18.
DEPARTMENT OF WEST VIRGINIA, November 10, 1864.

1. The Twenty-first New York Cavalry, having reported to the Second Cavalry Division, Department of West Virginia, in accordance with Special Orders, No. 57, from headquarters Cavalry Corps, Middle Military Division, is hereby assigned to the First Brigade, Second Cavalry Division.

2. Colonel W. B. Tibbits, Twenty-first New York Cavalry, is hereby directed to assume command of the First Brigade, Second Cavalry Division, relieving Major Thomas Gibson, Fourteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry, now in command of brigade.

3. Colonel A. S. Moore, Eighth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, is hereby released from arrest, and directed to assume command of his regiment.

By command of Brigadier General W. H. Powell:

[WILL RUMSEY,
Assistant Adjutant-General.]

HEADQUARTERS CAVALRY, MIDDLE MILITARY DIVISION,

November 10, 1864.

General CUSTER,

Commanding Third Cavalry Division:

GENERAL: The chief of cavalry directs that you send one regiment, early to-morrow morning, up the Back road as far as Cedar Creek, to ascertain, if possible, something of the enemy. Should they meet his pickets the officer in command will endeavor to capture some of them. He would like a report, upon the regiment's return, of what success it met with.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

R. ELLIS,

Captain and Acting Assistant Inspector-General.

HEADQUARTERS THIRD CAVALRY DIVISION,
November 10, 1864.

Colonel A. C. M. PENNINGTON,

Commanding First Brigade:

You will detail 300 men from your brigade to picket from Mount Zion Church toward Newtown, and to the point where the Middle road crosses the road from Fawcett's Gap to Newtown, connecting with