interruption, the work will be completed by monday. I shall require a garrison of at least a full regiment at Martinsburg, and also one at Duffield's. With them the road can be held perfectly safe.

Respectfully, &c.,

JNO. D. STEVENSON,

Brigadier-General.

CIRCULAR.] HDQRS. CAVALRY, MIDDLE MILITARY DIVISION,

September 8, 1864.

Division commanders will at once cause all the dismounted men of their respective commands to be collected and sent under charge of an officer to the Dismounted Camp in Pleasant Valley, Md. Particular attention must be paid to collecting the dismounted men who skulk and loaf about the trains. The headquarters and commissaries should be ordered to make a thorough inspection of their trains and depots, that all dismounted men not properly detailed may be sent at once to the Dismounted Camp.

By command of Brigadier-General Torbert:

WM. RUSSELL, JR.,

Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS CAVALRY, MIDDLE MILITARY DIVISION,
Near Berryville, Va., September 8, 1864.

Brigadier-General AVERELL,

Commanding Second Division:

GENERAL: Your dispatch received, dated September 8, 7 a. m.* No movements of importance except Crook's corps to Summit Point and Merritt's division farther to the right. Wilson still on the Berryville and Winchester pike connecting with the left of the infantry. Information is sent you as often as practicable and immediately when anything important transpires.

Very respectfully,

M. A. RENO,

Captain and Chief of Staff.

MARTINSBURG, [September] 8, 1864.

(Received Cumberland 4 p. m.)

General KELLEY:

Please keep me informed with regard to state of water in Potomac.

WM. W. AVARELL.

CUMBERLAND, September 8, 1864.

Brigadier-General AVERELL,

Martinsburg:

Returned this p. m. from Parkesburg. Very heavy rain in the mountains. North Branch has not raised much yet, but undoubtedly will. Captain C. J. Harrison was directed to advise you from the mouth of South Branch this p. m.

B. F. KELLEY,

Brevet Major-General.

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