[Inclosure.]

Field return of troops in the field belonging to the Middle Military Division, September 10, 1864.

Present for duty.

Troops. Officers. Men. Aggregate.

Sixth Army Corps:

Infantry. 668 12,028 12,674

Artillery. 22 626 648

Nineteenth Army

Corps:

Infantry. 660 12,150 12,810

Artillery. 7 208 215

Army of West

Virginia:

Infantry. 306 6,834 7,140

Artillery. 12 355 367

Cavalry (General 339 6,126 6,465

Torbert).

Artillery. 7 346 353

Military District of 204 4,611 4,815

Harper's Ferrya.

Total. 2,203* 43,284 45,487

artillery, cavalry, and infantry.

P. H. SHERIDAN,

Major-General, Commanding.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, September 20, 1864.

Major-General SHERIDAN,

Winchester, Va.:

Have just heard of your great victory. God bless you all, officers and men. Strongly inclined to come up and see you.

A. LINCOLN.

WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, September 20, 1864. (Sent 8 p. m.)

Major-General SHERIDAN,

In the Field:

Please accept for yourself and your gallant army the thanks of the President and this Department for your great battle and brilliant victory of yesterday.

The President has appointed you a brigadier-general in the Regular Army, and you have been assigned to the permanent command of the Middle Division. One hundred guns were fired here at noon to-day in honor of your victory.

EDWIN M. STANTON,

Secretary of War.

HEADQUARTERS ARMIES OF THE UNITED STATES, In the Field, City Point, Va., September 22, 1864-10 p. m.

Major-General SHERIDAN,
Strasburg, Va.:

I congratulate you and the army serving under you for the great victory just achieved. It has been most opportune in point of time

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*So in original. The addition of the column is 2,225, which, if the factors are correctly stated, would make the "aggregate" 45,509.

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