HEADQUARTERS MIDDLE DEPARTMENT,
Baltimore, Md., July 10, 1864-3 p. m.

Brigadier-General LOCKWOOD,

Commanding Provisional Division:

GENERAL: I am directed by the general commanding to inform you that a body of cavalry belonging to General Sigel's command has just arrived, and has gone to, or in the direction of, Camp Bradford. You are directed to have them report to you for duty and subject to your orders.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

JOHN WOOLEY,

Lieutenant-Colonel and Provost-Marshal.

HEADQUARTERS MIDDLE DEPARTMENT,
Baltimore, Md., July 10, 1864.

Colonel L. B. Pierce will proceed to encamp his men near Fort McHenry and organize the different detachments and place them so as they will be effective in the field as soon as possible. He will call to his aid such cavalry officers as may be in and about this city without a command.

By command of Major-General Wallace:

WM. H. WIEGEL,

Captain and Assistant Adjutant-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. TROOPS DEFENSE OF BALTIMORE, Numbers 8.
July 10, 1864.

By direction of the brigadier-general commanding department, the streets of this city are ordered to be barricaded as far as to prevent a dash of cavalry. To this end labor is proffered by the mayor, and the necessary material will be furnished by the quartermaster's department. Lieutenant Smith, late of the Army of the Potomac, having volunteered his services to this work is hereby intrusted with the same, and will be obeyed and respected accordingly as the chief, subject in his operations to the approval of these headquarters.

By order of General Lockwood:

FRANK WELLS,
Lieutenant and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

HDQRS. THIRD SEPARATE Brigadier, EIGHTH ARMY CORPS,

Baltimore, July 10, 1864.

Lieutenant-Colonel LAWRENCE,

Assistant Adjutant-General, Eighth Army Corps:

COLONEL: I have the honor to report that a scout returned with the information that at about 8 a. m. this morning a body of rebel cavalry, said to number 1,600 men, under command of Johnson and Gilmor, passed through Reiterstown, and it was reported that they were moving to destroy the bridges on the Northern Central Railroad, and also the bridges on the Philadelphia and Baltimore Railroad.

JOHN R. KENLY,

Brigadier-General, Commanding.