ment, reports that he saw nothing of the enemy. He went between six and seven miles beyond the creek. Citizens report that no enemy has been there since they fell back on the 19th.

Very respectfully,

A. C. M. PENNINGTON,

Colonel, Commanding Brigade.

HARPER'S FERRY, October 22, 1864.

Honorable E. M. STANTON,

Secretary of War:

Fifteen hundred wounded and 1,500 prisoners have just arrived at Martinsburg from front.

Respectfully,

JOHN D. STEVENSON,

Brigadier-General.

WASHINGTON, D. C., October 22, 1864.

General STEVENSON:

I leave here in an hour for Harper's Ferry, en route for General Sheridan's headquarters. I desire to have a sufficient escort ready at Harper's Ferry to accompany me there.

C. A. DANA,

Assistant Secretary of War.

HARPER'S FERRY, VA., October 22, 1864.

(Received 12 m.)

Colonel JAMES A. HARDIE,

War Office:

I have this morning received positively information of the fate of Captain Buchanan and his orderly. He was murdered by his captors near Brook's Furnace, on the Shenandoah River, by two men by the name of Charles McDonough and Wirt Ashby, who had captured him. I can recover the bodies at any time. I have the papers found upon the body of Captain B., fully identifying him.

JOHN D. STEVENSON,

Brigadier-General.

[First indorsement.]

WAR DEPARTMENT,

October 24, 1864.

Respectfully referred to the Adjutant-General for his information. By order of the Secretary of War:

JAS. A. HARDIE,

Colonel and Inspector-General.

[Second indorsement.]

ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE,

October 26, 1864.

Respectfully returned to Brigadier-General Stevenson, who will please report whether the within-named Captain Buchanan is Evan M. Buchanan, commissary of subsistence of volunteers, with Third Division, Sixth Corps, giving also the date of his death.

S. F. CHALFIN,

Assistant Adjutant-General.