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the orders from Major-General Torbert, to arrest smugglers and deserters, and not to interfere with loyal citizens in their business transactions.
JNO. D. STEVENSON,
Brigadier-General.
HEADQUARTERS MIDDLE MILITARY DIVISION,
December 14, 1864.Major-General CROOK:
The party sent in the direction of Moorefield reports that the rebels at Moorefield went back to the Valley on Monday morning, and that it was a foraging party. Have you and news to-day? I have ordered the Twenty-second Pennsylvania Cavalry at Martinsburg, 700 strong, to report to General Kelley at Cumberland.
P. H. SHERIDAN,
Major-General.
[Indorsement.]
Respectfully referred to General Kelley for his information, and for any late information he may have.
ROBT. P. KENNEDY,
Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.
[Second indorsement.]
DECEMBER 14, 1864-5.30 p. m.
Respectfully returned.
I have no intelligence of the movements or position of the enemy later than has been communicated.
B. F. KELLEY,
Brevet Major-General.
CUMBERLAND, December 14, 1864.
Major-General SHERIDAN,
Kernstown, Va.:
The following is just received from New Creek;
Citizens just arrived from near Petersburg persist in saying that there is a rebel force of about 1,000 at Petersburg gathering everything that can walk. I cannot say whether this is correct or not. I give it for your consideration.
R. E. FLEMING,
Lieutenant-Colonel.
Colonel Fleming has been ordered to send out a scouting party to ascertain if this report is true.
GEORGE CROOK,
Major-General.
HEADQUARTERS MIDDLE MILITARY DIVISION,[December] 14, 1864. (Received 9.10 a. m.)
General CROOK:
I think it is more than probable that there is a foregoing party of rebels about Petersburg and that they will drive off some stock and
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