CIRCULAR.] HEADQUARTERS SECOND ARMY CORPS,

September 29, 1864.

Division commanders and the commander of the Artillery Brigade are directed to have all the troops of their command under arms at 4 a. m. to-morrow, the 30th instant.

By order of Major-General Hancock:

H. H. BINGHAM,

Major and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

CIRCULAR.] HEADQUARTERS SECOND ARMY CORPS,

September 29, 1864.

Division commanders and commander of the Artillery Brigade, together with subordinate commanders, are permitted to pitch their tents. The circular relative to the troops being under arms at 4 a. m. will be considered as still in force, but the tents of commanders need not be struck until further orders.

By order of Major-General Hancock:

H. H. BINGHAM,

Major, Judge-Advocate and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

HDQRS. ARTILLERY BRIGADE, SECOND ARMY CORPS,
September 29, 1864.

Major H. H. BINGHAM,

Acting Assistant Adjutant-General, Second Corps:

MAJOR: I have the honor to report that during the day very little firing occurred on the line. Two or three of the enemy's working parties were opened on, compelling them to stop work. About 8.30 p. m. the enemy's picket-line on the left opened a heavy fire which soon ceased. The enemy then opened with artillery along nearly the whole line, which was vigorously returned. The Chesterfield battery fired a few good shots into Fort McGilvery, Battery 7, and Battery 6. At about 9 p. m. the enemy advanced their skirmish line in front of Lieutenant Dauchy's (Twelfth New York) battery. He opened with canister and shell and the line retired. Casualties, one man of the Eleventh New York Battery killed.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

JNumbers G. HAZARD,

Major, Commanding.

HALIFAX ROAD SIGNAL STATION,

September 29, 1864-7.30 a. m.

Lieutenant-Colonel LOCKE,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

At 6.45 a. m. four regiments of infantry, numbering in all about 1,000 men, passed the W. Davis house, on the Squirrel Level road, moving southward. No unusual activity in the enemy's works on plank road west of the toll-gate.

CHAS. L. DAVIS,

Captain, Signal Corps.

(Forwarded to General Humphreys.)