George G. Meade to Major-General REYNOLDs, June 13, 1863

June 13, 1863. Major-General REYNOLDs, Bealeton : Pickets have been to Sulphur Springs; patrols to Waterloo and beyond. Scouts are now out toward Sperryville. Have ordered pickets to Waterloo and Amissville. Have sent you a brigade, to picket the river. A. PLEASONTON, Brigadier-General, Commanding. BEALETON STATION, June 13, 1863. Brigadier-General PLEASONTON : Your dispatch of this morning is received. I wish you would send the brigade to Warrenton at once, and send me, in the direction of Little Washington, a force sufficient to ascertain with certainty whether the enemy are moving up into the Valley or not. Waterloo Bridge can be watched from the force at Warrenton. This reconnaissance from Warrenton should leave to-night. JOHN F. REYNOLDS, Major-General of Volunteers, Commanding. 84 N. ©, V. A. W. V. A., M. D., P. A., ETC. [Cuar. XXXIX, HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE Potomac, June 18, 1863—12.30 p. m, Lieutenant-Colonel LocKE, Headquarters Fifth Corps: Issue orders to Generals Sykes and Barnes to be in readiness to move to-night or early to-morrow morning. In view of the orders, all the trains of both commands must be immediately withdrawn and sent up to Morrisville, and parked in the vicinity of that place. Cavalry will be sent to relieve the pickets and watch the fords on the withdrawal of the infantry.

GEO. G. MEADE,