HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF WASHINGTON, 22ND ARMY CORPS,
September 6, 1864.

General BARNES,

Commanding at Point Lookout:

Lieutenant Hooker's letter received. * What importance do you attach to its statements? What is the character of the boats to which he refers?

C. C. AUGUR,

Major-General, Commanding.

HEADQUARTERS MIDDLE MILITARY DIVISION,
September 6, 1864.

Major General GEORGE CROOK,

Commanding at Department of West Virginia:

GENERAL: The major-general commanding directs that you furnish one regiment for the protection of the trains now being collected at a point about one mile and a quarter in rear of your headquarters on the Berryville pike. When the trains move to Charlestown, the regiment will accompany and remain with them. The regiment will draw its rations from Harper's Ferry.

Very respectfully, general, your obedient servant,

C. KINGSBURY, JR.,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS MIDDLE MILITARY DIVISION,
September 6, 1864-6.45 a. m.

Brigadier-General TORBERT,

Chief of Cavalry:

GENERAL: The major-general commanding directs that you send a regiment of cavalry, on the receipt of this communication, out on the Berryville and Winchester pike to the crossing of the Opequon Creek.

Very respectfully,

JAS. W. FORSYTH,

Lieutenant-Colonel and Chief of Staff.

[Indorsement.]

Respectfully referred to Brigadier-General Wilson, who will send the regiment as require.

M. A. RENO,

Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS CAVALRY, MIDDLE MILITARY DIVISION,
Near Berryville, Va., September 6, 1864-8 p. m.

Brigadier-General MERRITT,

Commanding First Division:

GENERAL: The chief of cavalry directs that you proceed at 5.30 o'clock in the morning with the Reserve and Second Brigades of the First Division to the crossing of the Millwood and Winchester pike

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* Not found.

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