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STONY MOUNTAIN, March 28, 1864.

Captain NORTON,

Chief Signal Officer, Army of the Potomac:

A party of the enemy, numbering between 100 and 200, is intrenching itself on the heights a little below Somerville Ford. All quiet.

TAYLOR,

Signal Officer.

(Copy to General Hancock.)

GARNETT'S MOUNTAIN, March 28, 1864--5 p. m.

Major-General WARREN, and

CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER, Army of the Potomac:

The enemy are more active to-day. Inspections of regiments and one brigade reviewed. No movements. Regular cannonading heard west-southwest during the day; target practice, I think.

CASTLE,

Signal Officer.

STONY MOUNTAIN, March 28, 1864--5. 30 p. m.

Captain NORTON:

Enemy still at work as reported this a. m. All quiet.

TAYLOR.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPT. OF THE SUSQUEHANNA, Numbers 22.
Chambersburg, Pa., March 28, 1864.

I. In obedience to paragraph 31, Special Orders, Numbers 125, War Department, March 23, 1864, Captain J. H. Gilman, commissary of subsistence, U. S. Army, is hereby relieved from duty as chief commissary of subsistence of the Department of the Susquehanna.

II. Captain Brownell Granger, commissary of subsistence, U. S. Volunteers, is hereby assigned to duty as chief commissary of subsistence of the Department of the Susquehanna.

By command of Major-General Couch:

JOHN S. SCHULTZE,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

CUMBERLAND, MD., March 28, 1864.

(Received 2. 50 p. m.)

ADJUTANT-GENERAL OF THE ARMY,

War Department, Washington:

General Duffie, commanding at Charleston, Kanawha, during the absence of General Crook, reports:

Two companies of my cavalry returned from an expedition toward Wayne County, capturing 13 prisoners and a rebel mail. Rebel prisoners from the Twenty-second Virginia (rebel) Infantry, who were captured yesterday on the road to Lewisburg, report no enemy at Lewisburg.

A. N. DUFFIE,

General, Commanding.

Colonel Moor, commanding at Beverly, reports that 70 women and children were sent with a flag of truce into his lines by order of General Echols, commanding the Confederate troops in that region.


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