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[First indorsement.]


HEADQUARTERS CAVALRY CORPS, February 28, 1864.

Respectfully forwarded.

Colonel Mosby's gallantry and skill highly commended, and attention called to the officers and men specially mentioned.

J. E. B. STUART,
Major-General.

[Second indorsement.]


HEADQUARTERS, March 8, 1864.

Respectfully forwarded, concurring in the commendation of General Stuart bestowed upon Colonel Mosby, the officers and men of his command.

R. E. LEE,
General.

FEBRUARY 20, 1864. -Affair near hurricane Bridge, W. Va.

Abstract from Record of Events on return of Third Brigade, Third Cavalry Division, Department of West Virginia, for February, 1864.

A scouting party of 20 men of the Third West Virginia Cavalry, under Lieutenant Henry A. Wolf, Company K, sent out from Hurricane Bridge, W. Va., had a skirmish with the enemy [February 20], in which Lieutenant Wolf was killed.

FEBRUARY 21-22, 1864. -Scout from New Creek to Moorefield, W. Va.

Report of Colonel James A. Mulligan, Twenty-third Illinois Infantry.

CUMBERLAND, MD., February 22, 1864. (Received 11. 30 p. m.)

The following telegram from Colonel Mulligan just received. Captain Wallace is the hero of Greenland Gap, where he was captured with his company last May by General Jones, and take to Richmond by his prisoner, Parker. Captain Kuyknedall was captured a few days since in Hampshire County.

NEW CREEK, W. VA., February 22, 1864.

Captain MATHEWS,

Acting Assistant Adjutant-General;

Captain Wallace just in from a scout to Moorefield. He captured Lieutenant Parker, 2 privates, and 3 horses. Parker is first lieutenant of Kuykendall's company, and the same officer who guarded Wallace to Richmond.

JAS. A. MULLIGAN,

B. F. KELLEY,

Brigadier-General.

Brigadier-General CULLUM,

Chief of Staff.


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