HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF WASHINGTON, TWENTY-SECOND ARMY CORPS,
April 23, 1865.

Brevet Brigadier-General GAMBLE,

Commanding First Separate Brigade:

GENERAL: You were not ordered to send the regimental property of the Eighth Illinois Cavalry to Camp Casey, but to Alexandria. Distribute the cavalry now on the line as you think best.

Respectfully,

J. H. TAYLOR,

Chief of Staff and Assistant Adjutant-General.

FAIRFAX COURT-HOUSE, April 23, 1865.

(Received 1.30 p. m.)

Colonel J. H. TAYLOR,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

COLONEL: The battalion of the Eighth Illinois Cavalry and baggage train are now just starting according to orders. I have directed the remaining battalion of the Thirteenth New York Cavalry to be distributed along the line for the purpose of keeping up the communication. It is now the only cavalry on the line, and is about 300 strong.

WM. GAMBLE,

Brevet Brigadier-General.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF WASHINGTON, TWENTY-SECOND ARMY CORPS,
April 23, 1865.

Colonel CLENDENIN,

Commanding Eighth Illinois Cavalry, Camp Casey:

You will proceed early to-morrow morning with your command to Bruyantown, Md., and report to Colonel H. H. Wells, at or near that place, and obey such instructions as he may give you. Should he have use for your command you will proceed with it Leonardtown and take post near there, where you will find another battalion of your regiment under Major Waite. Major Waite will show you his instructions, which you will consider as your own until you receive further orders.

Respectfully, yours,

C. C. AUGUR,

Major-General, Commanding.

POINT LOOKOUT, MD., April 23, 1865.

Honorable EDWIN M. STANTON,

Secretary of War:

I have just received the following dispatch from Captain Willauer, at Leonardtown:

Sergeant Bagley, of the mounted detachment stationed at Millstone Landing, informs me that J. Wilkes Booth was seen passing through Great Mills on foot about 9 o'clock this morning. He is dressed in woman's attire. The sergeant and his men