HEADQUARTERS, April 22, 1864.

Major C. S. STRINGFELLOW,
Assistant Adjutant-General:

Dispatch just received from officer in command of outpost says that enemy were engaged yesterday evening in building a bridge and chopping out the blockade. Supposed to be a regiment at work, and guarding the workmen. My train will get in this morning.

JNO. ECHOLS,

Brigadier-General.

MUNT CRAWFORD, April 22, 1864.

Major-General BRECKINRIDGE:

On Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday last Averell's whole command, men and horses, passed Cumberland and New Creek on the cars bound westward. Milroy in person has gone west, supposed to take command at Grafton. There is a large force of infantry and artillery to my front at Martinsburg. I have a regiment at Franklin, obstructing road to Monterey.

J. D. IMBODEN,

Brigadier-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
ADJT. AND INSP. GENERAL'S OFFICE, No. 94. Richmond, April 22, 1864.

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XXX. The Fifty-ninth Regiment North Carolina Troops (Fourth Cavalry), Colonel D. D. Ferebee, is detached from Brigadier General James B. Gordon's brigade. Colonel Ferebee will report to General Beauregard, commanding, &c., Weldon, N. C., for duty.

The Third Regiment North Carolina Cavalry, Colonel Baker, will immediately proceed by highway to headquarters Army of Northern Virginia, and report to General R. E. Lee, commanding, &c., for assignment to General J. B. Gordon's brigade.

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By command of the Secretary of War:

JNO. WITHERS,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS, April 23, 1864.

His Excellency JEFFERSON DAVIS,

President Confederate States:

Mr. PRESIDENT: Notwithstanding the numerous reports received of the Eleventh and Twelfth Corps having come east, I do not think it certain. I have had very direct intelligence of the passage of the Ninth Corps over the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad about the last of march and 1st of April, and of the transportation of troops from the West to the East since, but I cannot identify any particular corps, so many numbers are given. The Eleventh and Twelfth, now Twentieth, may have passed over the Pennsylvania routes, but from an order reported in the Chattanooga paper of the 6th April it would seem that corps was then in Tennessee. I do not think it has