HEADQUARTERS VALLEY DISTRICT,
September 3, 1864.

General BRECKINRIDGE:

GENERAL: General Early directs that you move as soon as you are ready, without reference to Ramseur. Send one division direct to Bunker Hill with your wagons, move the other division on the road from Brucetown to Fry's Mill, and send a brigade as far as the Opequon to ascertain if there is any movement of the enemy. If there is then move the division over to its old camp by the road we followed yesterday. Send a battery with this division.

Respectfully,

A. S. PENDLETON,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

SEPTEMBER 3, 1864.

Major J. S. JOHNSTON,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

MAJOR: When the command is done cooking put it in motion for our old camps at Bunker Hill. The command will follow Ramseur, and on reaching camp will picket as before.

JOHN C. BRECKINRIDGE,

Major-General.

HEADQUARTERS VALLEY DISTRICT,
September 3, 1864.

General BRECKINRIDGE:

GENERAL: General Early directs that you do not move as before ordered.

Respectfully,

A. S. PENDLETON,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS VALLEY DISTRICT,
September 3, 1864-2.15 p. m.

General BRECKINRIDGE:

GENERAL: General Early wishes your troops to remain as they are until further orders. He is awaiting some information from Fitz Lee.

Respectfully,

A. S. PENDLETON,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

I send Baltimore American of 31st ultimo. Please read and return it to me, as I borrowed it and must return it to-night.

A. S. P.

Fitz Lee writes that the paper of September 1 says McClellan and Pendleton are the nominees.