HEADQUARTERS HARDIN'S DIVISION,
July 16, 1864-11 a. m.

Lieutenant Colonel J. H. TAYLOR,

Assistant Adjutant-General, Twenty-second Army Corps:

Shall Colonel Warner send this ammunition with escort of twenty men? My inspector-general told me this morning that the sixty-three men and one officer, cavalry, ordered to report to Colonel Hasking at Fort Slocum, are still there. If this ammunition is to go out, some of those men ought to go along.

I am sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

M. D. HARDIN,

Brigadier-General, Commanding.

[Inclosure.]

FORT RENO, July 16, 1864-9. 30 a. m.

Captain R. CHANDLER,

Asst. Adjt. General, General Hardin's Hdqrs.,

Cor. 19th St. and Pa. Ave.:

Colonel Lowell from Poolesville sent yesterday to the quartermaster an urgent dispatch for ammunition. It has reached here. I have but twenty men to escort it. The sergeant-major of Second Massachusetts left Rockville 11 p. m. yesterday; reports Mosby with 200 men between Germantown and Darnestown, going toward the river. When the sergeant reached Muddy Branch he found the block-house in ruins. Sergeant says he saw the force at a distance, and citizens said it was Mosby. Colonel Lowell left Poolesville in the direction of Leesburg about 12 m. Shall I send it with the force I have? Please answer.

J. M. WARNER.

Colonel, Commanding Brigade.

HDQRS. DEPT. OF WASHINGTON, 22nd ARMY CORPS,
July 16, 1864

Captain CAMP,

Assistant Quartermaster, in charge of Soldiers' Rest:

CAPTAIN: The major-general commanding directs me to inform you that four batteries belonging to the Sixth Army Corps and commanded by Major Tompkins, First Rhode Island Artillery, will arrive at the Soldier's Rest from Baltimore this day, and he desires that you instruct the commanding officers as they arrive to report with their batteries to Major Hall, commanding Camp Barry.

I am, captain, very respectfully, your most obedient servant,

J. H. TAYLOR,

Chief of Staff and Assistant Adjutant-General.

HDQRS. DEPT. OF WASHINGTON, 22nd ARMY CORPS,
July 16, 1864.

Colonel S. D. OLIPHANT,

Fourteenth Regiment Veteran Reserve Corps:

COLONEL: The major-general commanding directs that you move the armed convalescents, now under your command, to the Soldiers' Rest and there await further orders.

J. A. SLIPPER,

Captain and Assistant Adjutant-General.

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