HDQRS. PROVISIONAL DIVISION, ARMY OF THE JAMES,
New York Harbor, November 11, 1864.

Captain L. L. LANGDON,

Commanding, &c.:

SIR: In accordance with the general order* herewith sent, you will return your command to Fort Hamilton. You will keep the ferry-boat Peconic at the wharf, and hold two sections constantly ready to move on board at a moment's notice. Bring down to Fort Hamilton, as soon as may be, whatever men and material you may have at Atlantic Dock or near there. Send a field return of both batteries as soon as you can make a thorough one. It is hardly necessary to remind you that it would be well to inspect your command as soon as it has time to put itself in order again.

By order of Brigadier-General Hawley:

CHAS. H. GRAVES,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS NEW YORK CITY,
November 11, 1864.

JOHN A. KENNEDY,

Superintendent and Chief of Police:

SIR: Brigadier-General Gordon directs me to request you to send a notice to each officer ordered on duty at the various police stations, desiring them to person at these headquarters, as they are now relieved from duty.

CHARLES W. DARLING,

Colonel and Volunteer Aide-de-Camp.

HEADQUARTERS NEW YORK CITY,
Friday, November 11, 1864.

Colonel SANFORD,

President of the American Telegraph Company:

SIR: General Gordon desires you to telegraph to every station in the city where a commissioned officer is on duty, in conformity with instructions given at the city department of the American Telegraph Company, relieving them from duty, in his name, and directing them to report in person at these headquarters immediately.

CHARLES W. DARLING,

Colonel and Volunteer Aide-de-Camp,

On duty at Headquarters Major-General Butler.

NEW YORK, November 11, 1864.

Brigadier-General GORDON,

Chief of Staff:

GENERAL: I have the honor to report that, in pursuance of Special Orders, No. 10, headquarters New York City, November 8, 1864, I have maintained a supervision in and around the Saint Nicholas and Metropolitan Hotels in this city, and up to the present time nothing has come

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*See No. 1., p. 607.

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