SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPT,. OF WEST VIRGINIA, Numbers 122.
Parkersburg, W. Va., July 7, 1864.

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6. The First New York (Lincoln) Cavalry is detached from the command of Brigadier-General Duffie. Major T. Quinn, commanding said regiment, upon their arrival at this point, will make the necessary arrangements for procuring forage, and proceed without delay to Cumberland, Md., and report to Brigadier General B. F. Kelley, commanding at that post. The quartermaster will furnish the necessary transportation at the earliest possible moment.

By order of Major-General Hunter:

[P. G. BIER,]

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF WEST VIRGINIA, Parkersburg, W. Va., July 7, 1864.

Colonel RICHARDSON,
Commanding Fifteenth New York Cavalry:

COLONEL: The major-general commanding directs that you leave the artillery under the guard of a company of infantry that have been ordered to meet it and hurry forward to-night to this place.

I am, colonel, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

[P. G. BIER,]

Assistant Adjutant-General.

[JULY 7, 1864. -For Sigel to Adjutant-General (two dispatches), reporting operations at Maryland Heights, &c., see Part I, pp. 178, 179.]

CIRCULAR.] HEADQUARTERS RESERVE DIVISION, July 7, 1864. -11 a. m.

I. The brigade of Colonel Haines will be immediately concentrated behind Battery Weber.

II. Colonel Young and Colonel Maulsby will occupy with their troops the rifle-pits, with proper reserves.

III. The number of men in the rifle-pits will be reduced one-third. IV. Colonel Maulsby and Colonel Young will organize of their entire commands, respectively, three companies, to be composed of the best and most reliable men, to act as sharpshooters and skirmishers. These companies must be well officered, each company with two officers, and at least six non-commissioned officers; each company of sixty men.

By order of Major-General Sigel:

T. A. MEYSENBURG,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. ARMY OF KANAWHA, DEPARTMENT OF WEST VIRGINIA, Numbers 5.
Charleston, W. Va., July 7, 1864.

Owing to the fact that the citizens between Meadow Bluff and this place were necessary stripped of all subsistence by our troops