HARPER'S FERRY, VA., December 3, 1864.

Major-General SHERIDAN:

The Eighteenth Connecticut is on line of railroad between this and Charlestown, headquarters at Halltown. The Second Eastern Shore Maryland is at Duffield's Station, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. I have telegraphed your order to Brigadier-General Lightburn. The command sent to General Kelley has not returned.

Respectfully,

JNO. S. STEVENSON,

Brigadier-General.

HEADQUARTERS MIDDLE MILITARY DIVISION,
December 3, 1864-10.15 a. m.

Brigadier-General STEVENSON:

Send the brigade of the Nineteenth Corps at Martinsburg to join its command here without delay.

P. H. SHERIDAN,

Major-General, Commanding.

(Copy to General Lightburn.)

HARPER'S FERRY, December 3, 1864.

General LIGHTBURN:

Major-General Sheridan orders brigade of Nineteenth Corps at Martinsburg to join its command without [delay]. Have the order obeyed.

JOHN D. STEVENSON,

Brigadier-General.

MARTINSBURG, December 3, 1864.

Brigadier-General STEVENSON:

GENERAL: Colonel Porter will be ready to start at 4 o'clock this p. m. Captain Alexander, General Torbert's quartermaster, has some wagons and horses for the staff to send out, which cannot be ready before morning. Would it be prudent for Colonel Porter to remain until that time?

J. A. J. LIGHTBURN,

Brigadier-General.

HARPER'S FERRY, December 3, 1864.

Brigadier-General LIGHTBURN,

Martinsburg:

I do not feel at liberty to make any change of General Sheridan's order.

JOHN D. STEVENSON,

Brigadier-General.