CEDAR CREEK, October 28, 1864-12.30 p. m.

(Received 9 a. m. 29th.)

Major-General HALLECK,

Chief of Staff:

Put Major Wentz, or some good man, on the railroad at Winchester. General Stevenson should have nothing to do with it. IN fact, Stevenson knows so much more about everything than I do myself, or than anybody else does, that he is getting to be very embarrassing to me.

P. H. SHERIDAN,

Major-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. MIDDLE MILITARY DIVISION, No. 68.
October 28, 1864.

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7. Brigadier General T. Seymour, having reported to these headquarters in compliance with orders from the War Department, is assigned to duty with the Sixth Corps, and will report to Major-General Wright accordingly.

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By command of Major-General Sheridan:

C. KINGSBURY, JR.,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

MUDDY BRANCH, October 28, 1864.

(Received 5.30 p. m.)

Lieutenant Colonel J. H. TAYLOR:

COLONEL: My patrol is just in form Great Falls. No reports of Mosby in that vicinity. Everything quiet along the line.

Very respectfully,

J. D. LUDLAM.

HEADQUARTERS DE RUSSY'S DIVISION, Near Fort Corcoran, Va., October 28, 1864.

Major JOHN BIRDSALL,
Thirteenth New York Cavalry, Comdg. Cavalry Brigade:

MAJOR: I am directed by the brigadier-general commanding division to inform you that for the present the company of heavy artillery will be left whit you.

I am, very respectfully, &c.,

L. A. CHAMBERLAIN,

Aide-de-Camp.

MARTINSBURG, October 28, 1864.

(Received 7.20 p. m.)

Major-General TORBERT,

Willard's:

The captured artillery is all loaded, and leaves her by 7 p. m., whit guard of 100 men to accompany it as far as the Realy House. It ought to be in Washington by noon to-morrow.

W. H. SEWARD,

Brigadier-General.