Please embark the troops under your command as speedily as possible and advise me of their embarkation, that I may comply with he directions of the Secretary of War.

I have the honor to be, general, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

JOHN A. DIX,

Major-General, Commanding.

FORT RICHMOND, November 12, 1864.

Brigadier General GEORGE H. GORDON:

I respectfully request that the provost-marshal-general be instructed to watch all ferries from Staten Island for deserters. Small boats may take deserters to the New Jersey shore.

JOS. R. HAWLEY,

Brigadier-General.

NEW YORK, November 12, 1864.

General JOHN C. ROBINSON,

Albany:

Order the troops at Watervliet Arsenal, consisting of men of the Tenth Regular Infantry, and permanent party from Fort Columbus, about 100 in all, to Buffalo at once, to report to the commanding officer at the latter place.

JOHN A. DIX,

Major-General.

NEW YORK, November 12, 1864.

General A. S. DIVEN,

Elmira:

General Peck returns here immediately. His mission was special. I shall order 100 men to Buffalo. They belong to the regular infantry. Let them be provided for at the barracks at Fort Porter, unless you prefer some other position, and have them trained, so that four Parrott field guns I have sent there may be serviceable in their hands.

JOHN A. DIX,

Major-General.

HEADQUARTERS CITY OF NEW YORK,
November 12, 1864.

Major General J. J. PECK,

Buffalo, N. Y.:

Please report if Twelfth Infantry received orders at Elmira. Major-General Dix has sent to this office a communication from the War Department ordering the movements indicated in previous telegram.

GEO. H. GORDON,

Chief of Staff.