HEADQUARTERS CAVALRY RESERVE BRIGADE,
December 10, 1864.

Lieutenant J. G. TRIMBLE,

Acting Assistant Adjutant-General, First Cavalry Division:

LIEUTENANT: I have the honor to report that the scout of 100 men sent out from this brigade December 9, 1864, has just returned. The officer in charge reports that he sent out parties as directed beyond Fisher's Hill, who saw nothing of the enemy either time. Heard that the enemy's cavalry pickets were at Edenburg and their infantry force at New Market.

Very respectfully,

C. CROWNINSHIELD,

Commanding Brigade.

HEADQUARTERS SECOND CAVALRY DIVISION, DEPARTMENT OF WEST VIRGINIA,
December 10, 1864.

Major WILLIAM RUSSELL, Jr.,

Assistant Adjutant-General, Cavalry:

MAJOR: A lady just from Milford and at Kernstown last night makes the following report to one of my scouts: Lomax has left Milford and gone to join Early, seven miles above New Market. Imboden has gone to Culpeper with Eighteenth and Sixty-second Virginia Regiments. Johnsons commands Rodes' old division. The Luray Valley is perfectly desolate, and there is nothing in it but scouting parties. Expecting to move this morning, all orders for patrols were countermanded; unless otherwise ordered they will be sent out this afternoon.

Respectfully, &c.,

WM. B. TIBBITS,

Brevet Brigadier-General.

CUMBERLAND, December 10, 1864.

Major-General CROOK,

Kernstown, Va.:

The following dispatch from Captain Shaw, chief engineer, about the block-houses, is received:

I am urging the work forward with all possible haste. I will write by mail to-day.

S. F. SHAW,

Chief Engineer.

ROBT. P. KENNEDY,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF WEST VIRGINIA, No. 234.
Campt Russell, Va., December 10, 1864.

1. Battery F, First Pennsylvania Artillery, Captain N. Irish commanding, is hereby relieved from duty in the Military District of Harper's Ferry, and will proceed without delay to these headquarters and report