[Inclosure Numbers 1.]

LEWISBURG, VA., August 1, 1862.

COLONEL COMMANDING FORCES, Salt Sulphur Springs.

SIR: The Federal cavalry this day arrested Messrs. Samuel McClung, Samuel Tuckwiler and Austin Handley, citizens of the county, to be held as hostages, for Mr. Wm. P. Rucker, lately taken by our cavalry at Summersville. They report that they are to be treated in the same manner as the said Rucker.

F. M. FRAZIER,

P. BEIRNE.

WM. N. ANDERSON.

N. C. HENDRICK.

[Inclosure No. 2.]

HEADQUARTERS THIRD PROVISIONAL BRIGADE.

Meadow Bluff, August 1, 1862.

Mr. C. R. HINES, Palestine, Va.

SIR: You are required either to report yourself here, take the oath of allegiance to the United States giving as bonds for your faithful observance of the same all of your property or to move your family, &c., south of the Greenbrier River, and if again seen on this side of the river you will be regarded as spies and treated accordingly.

You will be given until Monday noon, the 4th, to make up your mind.

GEORGE CROOK,
Colonel, Commanding.

PETERSBURG, August 4, 1862.

Honorable G. W. RANDOLPH, Secretary of War:

Four thousand of our men, prisoners, will be at City Point to-night early.

S. G. FRENCH.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF EAST TENNESSEE,
Knoxville, Tenn., August 5, 1862.

Brigadier General T. J. CHURCHILL, Loudon, Tenn. ;

Let the commissary and quartermaster take the necessary supplies, and if Confederate money is refused in payment arrest those refusing.

By command of Major General E. Kirby Smith:

J. F. BELTON.

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF EAST TENNESSEE,
Knoxville, Tenn., August 5, 1862

Brigadier General JOHN H. WINDER, Richmond, Va.

GENERAL: By direction of the major-general commanding I forward to you lists* of commissioned officers, non-commissioned officers and privates captured near Nashville and paroled by him. Also of one commissioned officer paroled to report to Major-General McCown at Chattanooga, and since sent to Madison, Ga.

Respectfully, your obedient servant,

J. F. BELTON.

Assistant Adjutant-General.

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*Not found.

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