HDQRS. DEPT. OF WASHINGTON, 22nd ARMY CORPS,
July 12, 1864.

General BARNARD,

Chief Engineer, &c., near Fort Stevens:

Rifle-pits should be prepared between the forts south of the Eastern Branch. Please have it attended to. Designate some one here to supply requisitions for implements, shovels, &c.

C. C. AUGUR,

Major-General, U. S. Volunteers.

If General B. is not at Fort Stevens, please send it to Fort ReNumbers

WAR DEPARTMENT,

July 12, 1864.

General C. C. AUGUR,

Commanding Department:

Operator at Tennallytown says General Barnard is on his way to Washington.

D. H. BATES,

Chief Operator.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
WAR DEPT., ADJT. GENERAL'S OFFICE, Numbers 235.
Washington, July 12, 1864.

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8. Major C. E. Compton, Forty-seventh U. S. Colored Troops; Major William Painter, additional aide-de-camp; and Captain T. G. Telford, assistant adjutant-general, will proceed at once to Fort Stevens or vicinity, and report to Brigadier-General Meigs, Quartermaster-General U. S. Army, for assignment to temporary duty.

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35. Captain Daingerfield Parker, Third U. S. Infantry, will report, without delay, to Major General Augur, with his recruiting party and detachment of recruits, for temporary assignment to duty with a battery of regular artillery, or such other duty as may be most required.

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By order of the Secretary of War:

E. D. TOWNSEND,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY,

Washington, July 12, 1864.

Major-General AUGUR,

Commanding Department of Washington:

GENERAL: The following officers have been ordered to report to you; Major I. C. Woodruff, U. S. Engineers; Major John D. Kurtz, U. S. Engineers; Captain J. A. Kelley, Eighth Illinois Cavalry; Second Lieutenant M. E. Jones, Eighth Illinois Cavalry. When the services of the last two named can be dispensed with, they will be ordered to report at these headquarters, being under charges.

ROBERT N. SCOTT,

Captain, Fourth U. S. Infantry, Aide-de-Camp.