HEADQUARTERS MIDDLE MILITARY DIVISION,
December 9, 1864.

Captain R. P. KENNEDY,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

How are the block-houses coming on? Your appointment has reached here. Will forward at once.

GEO. CROOK,

Major-General.

CUMBERLAND, December 9, 1864.

Captain S. F. SHAW,

Actg. Chief Eng. Dept. of West Virginia, Martinsburg, W. Va.:

Go up to Green Spring Run and South Branch to-day to hurry up those block-houses.

ROBT. P. KENNEDY,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS MIDDLE MILITARY DIVISION,
Kernstown, Va., December 10, 1864-7.20 p. m.

Lieutenant-General GRANT,

Commanding Armies of the United States:

A deserters from the enemy, who came into my lines, confirms the movement of Pegram's and Gordon's divisions on the 7th instant. We are now having here very bad weather; seven inches of snow, and very cold.

P. H. SHERIDAN,

Major-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. MIDDLE MILITARY DIVISION, No. 108.
December 10, 1864.

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6. Major General A. McD. McCook, U. S. Volunteers, having reported at these headquarters, in compliance with orders from the War Department, is assigned to duty with the Middle Departmennt, Eighth Army Corps, and will report accordingly to Major-General Wallace for orders.

7. So much of paragraph 1, Special Orders, No. 91, current series, from these headquarters, as designates the battle fought on the 19th of September by this army as "Winchester," is countermanded. It will be called the "Opequon," and this name inscribed on the colors of the regiments therein engaged accordingly.

8. Colonel Alexandria Piper, having reported at these headquarters, in compliance with orders from the War Department, is hereby announced as chief of artillery on the staff of the major-general commanding. He will be obeyed and respected accordingly.

By command of Major-General Sheridan:

C. KINGSBURY, JR.,
Assistant Adjutant-General.