SPECIAL ORDERS,
WAR DEPT., ADJT. GENERAL'S OFFICE, Numbers 252.
Washington, July 28, 1864.

1. Companies H and K, Second U. S. Artillery, now at Fort Hamilton, New York Harbor, are relieved from duty at that post, and will be at once put en route for Fort McHenry, Baltimore, Md. On their arrival, the commanding officer will report to Brevet Brigadier-General Morris, U. S. Army, commanding Second Separate Brigade, Eighth Army Corps. The quartermaster's department will furnish the necessary transportation.

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By order of the Secretary of War:

E. D. TOWNSEND,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

WASHINGTON, July 29, 1864.

Lieutenant-General GRANT,

City Point, Va.:

I have changed my purpose, so that now I expect to reach Fort Monroe at 10 a. m. Sunday the 31st.

A. LINCOLN.

JULY 29, 1864-9. 30 p. m.

Lieutenant General U. S. GRANT,

City Point, Va.:

No rebels are anywhere north of the Potomac. On Wednesday last Early's headquarters were at Millwood; his men busy thrashing and grinding grain. A train was then running to Culpeper; quantities of hay were being taken from there. Wright got to Harper's Ferry to-day with all his train safe. Halleck had been much alarmed for fear Mosby might cross at Edwards Ferry and cut off Wright's road. Mosby, with 400 men, was at Leesburg yesterday. Has not appeared at either Edwards or Conrad's Ferry. Ample force to stop him at both places. No news from Foster or Canby.

C. A. DANA.

HDQRS. DEPT. OF WASHINGTON, 22nd ARMY CORPS,
Washington, D. C., July 29, 1864.

Major General H. W. HALLECK,

Chief of Staff, &c.:

SIR: In compliance with your instructions of the 27th instant, I called together yesterday General De Russy, General Hardin, Lieutenant-Colonel Haskin, and Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander, for the purpose of consultation as to what additional armament of field pieces it may be desirable to place in the forts defending the city. We find that the armament of these works was settled by a board of officers convened for that purpose by orders from the Secretary of War, dated November 9, 1863. * The works have been arranged in accordance with the report of this board, and to make any

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*See Vol. XXIX, Part II, p. 443.

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