HEADQUARTERS MIDDLE MILITARY DIVISION,
November 17, 1864.

Brevet Brigadier-General DUVAL,

Commanding Army of West Virginia:

GENERAL: The major-general commanding directs that your detail a brigade to move to-morrow to the crossing of the Opequon. The commanding officer of the brigade will report here in person at 8 a. m. to-morrow, at which time the brigade will be ready to move.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

C. KINGSBURY, JR.,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS CAVALRY, MIDDLE MILITARY DIVISION,
November 17, 1864.

General CUSTER:

GENERAL: I am instructed by the chief of cavalry to say that in future he desires you to have the force at Fawcett's Gap patrol daily as far as Cedar Creek.

I am, general, very respectfully, &c.,

WM. RUSSELL, JR.,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

GENERAL ORDERS, HDQRS. MIL. DIST. OF HARPER'S FERRY, No. 23.
Harper's Ferry, Va., November 17, 1864.

The general commanding publishes this order for the information of all whom it may concern:

The Government of the United States having rebuilt the railroad from Harper's Ferry to Winchester, Va., to protect the same from molestation from guerrillas and disloyal citizens along the line of the same, the general commanding is instructed by the major-general commanding, in the event that the operations of said railroad are interfered with by guerrillas or disloyal citizens-

To arrest all male secessionists in the towns of Shepherdstown, Charlestown, Smithfield, and Berryville, and in the adjacent country, sending them to Fort McHenry, Md., there to be confined during the war; and also to burn all grain, destroy all subsistence, and drive off all stock belonging to such individuals, turning over the stock so seized to the Treasury agent for the benefit of the Government of the United States.

Upon the contingency requiring the execution of the instructions herein set forth, the same shall be executed promptly and thoroughly.

By order of Brigadier-General Stevenson:

S. F. ADAMS,

Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS U. S. FORCES,
Martinsburg, Va., November 17, 1864.

Lieutenant ADAMS,

A. A. A. G., Dist. of Harper's Ferry, Harper's Ferry, Va.:

LIEUTENANT: I sent forward this morning 603 wagons, with ambulances enough to make the train about 700 carriages. I did not think the escort sufficient, and consequently sent from my command 150 cava-