HEADQUARTERS SECOND CAVALRY DIVISION, DEPARTMENT OF WEST VIRGINIA,
December 6, 1864-10.40 p. m.

Major W. RUSSELL, Jr.,

Assistant Adjutant-General of Cavalry:

MAJOR: The patrol which was sent to Morgan's and Howellsville Fords to-day (fifty men) was attacked by a small party of the enemy and dispersed. Some of them have come in. The commanding officer, Lieutenant Holcomb, Twenty-firs New York Cavalry, was captured. Everything on the Front Royal and Millwood pike is quiet.

Respectfully,

WM. B. TIBBITS,

Brevet Brigadier-General.

HEADQUARTERS,
Harper's Ferry, December 6, 1864.

General SHERIDAN:

What shall I do with Sixth Corps men at Camp Distribution? They number about 800.

Respectfully,

JOHN D. STEVENSON,

Brigadier-General.

HEADQUARTERS MIDDLE MILITARY DIVISION,
December 6, 1864.

General STEVENSON:

If you have officers to take charge of them, send them to Washington to follow the corps.

P. H. SHERIDAN,

Major-General, Commanding.

BERLIN, December 6, 1864.

Brigadier General JOHN D. STEVENSON:

Information from various sources, each not cognizant of the other, satisfies me that Mosby, with 300 men, was to-day at Dry Mills, two miles and a half westward from Leesburg. He has Lieutenants Graham and Rhodes, of Keyes' cavalry, and several prisoners from General Merritt's command. He has informed citizens that he intends to hang Lieutenant Graham as a deserter from C. S. Army. Graham's term of service was out before his term of service, one year, had expired. You may rely upon this information as correct. Cannot something be done to take Mosby's command? Corporal treetop, who took French Bill, shot one of Mosby's men yesterday; he died this morning at Lovettsville. He is out again after more.

D. HENRY BURTNETE,

Captain and Assistant Provost-Marshal.

MONOCACY, December 6, 1864.

Brigadier-General STEVENSON:

Is there any truth in report that Mosby is on the railroad?

J. I. YELLOTT.