HEADQUARTERS THIRD CAVALRY DIVISION,
November 11, 1864.

Colonel W. WELLS,

Commanding Second Brigade:

In pursuance of instructions just received from the chief of cavalry, a copy of which is hereby furnished, you will at once attack the enemy with your entire force and drive him. Colonel Pennington has been ordered to send three regiments up the Back road toward Fawcett's Gap and attack his flank. If you think you can use any artillery to advantage, you can have one section of Captain Ransom's battery.

L. SIEBERT,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS,
Harper's Ferry, November 11, 1864.

General SEWARD,

Martinsburg:

Send with your first courier party the following:

Lieutenant-Colonel FORSYTH,

Chief of Staff:

Communication of 8th just received. Road completed to-day to six miles beyond Charlestown. Should not have troubled the general with communication of 10th instant, if I had received yours of 8th instant before it was written.

Respectfully,

JOHN D. STEVENSON,

Brigadier-General.

CUMBERLAND, November 11, 1864.

Major General GEORGE CROCK,

Commanding Department of West Virginia, Strasburg, Va.:

The force sent out from General Kelley's command to Moorefield has returned. They attacked a force of guerrillas and bushwhackers at Moorefield, who fled to the mountains. Only eight of them were captured. The indications were that a large force of cavalry was to be gathered near that place.

ROBT. P. KENNEDY,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

WAR DEPARTMENT, ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE,

Washington, November 11, 1864.

Brigadier General E. B. TYLER, U. S. Volunteers,

Relay House, Md.:

SIR: I acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 9th instant, and the "black flag" accompanying it. The Secretary of War has directed that a medal of honor to given to Detective C. H. Marsh for capturing it. Please give me such description of Marsh as will enable me to have the medal properly engraved. If in service, the company and regiment to which he bolongs; if not, the State that he is from, &c.

I am, sir, &c.,

E. D. TOWNSEND,

Assistant Adjutant-General.