HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC,
March 21, 1864

Major-General PLEASONTON,

Commanding Cavalry Corps:

General Merritt will draw in his pickets and patrols to their former lines.

A. A. HUMPHREYS,

Major-General and Chief of Staff.

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC,
March 2, 1864-4 a. m.

COMMANDING OFFICER CAVALRY CORPS:

Who commands the cavalry of Gregg's division ordered to Stevensburg? Major Dake at Stevensburg, reports that a scout states that the enemy are crossing at Germanna Ford. A force should be ordered to ascertain this at once.

A. A. HUMPHREYS,

Major-General and Chief of Staff.

HEADQUARTERS CAVALRY CORPS,
March 2, 1864.

General GREGG,

Stevensburg:

Major Dake, commanding Third Cavalry Division, says the enemy are crossing at Germanna Ford. The major-general commanding directs that you ascertain at once whether it is infantry or cavalry and in what force.

C. ROSS SMITH

Lieutenant-Colonel and Chief of Staff.

STEVENSBURG, March 2, 1864.

Lieutenant Colonel C. ROSS SMITH,

Chief of Staff:

The last report I had from the party was to the effect that it could not be ascertained that any of the enemy had crossed the river. My party is still out. The officer commanding Third Cavalry Division only learns of two men having come over near Germanna at about 12 o'clock last night.

D. McM. GREGG,

Brigadier-General.

HEADQUARTERS THIRD CAVALRY DIVISION,
March 2, 1864.

Captain PARSONS:

I have investigated the cause of the alarm last night, and found it to have arisen from the vedettes firing on a patrol which the enemy had established on taking away the cavalry pickets opposite Colonel Humphrey's house. Two scouts are reported to have crossed at the same time.

C. P. DAKE,

Major, Commanding Third Cavalry Division.