Max Weber to Benjamin F. Kelley, May 9, 1864

Brigadier-General KELLEY, Comdg. U. S. Forces on B. and O. R. R., Cumberland : Your telegram is received. General Weber is gone to the front to inquire into the nature and cause of an alarm raised last night, and an attack by guerrillas upon our advance pickets. A scout leaves to-day for Snicker’s Gap via Blue Ridge. Your orders relative to Colonel Rodgers at Martinsburg have received attention, and all passing there will be prohibited, save on orders from General Sigel or yourself. Fifty mounted men were sent to Duifield’s and fifty more to Kearneysville on Saturday to act as patrols and scouts. H. M. BURLEIGH, Assistant Adjutant-General.

Hp@rs. RESERVE Division, DEPT. OF WEST Virginia, Harper’s Ferry, May 9, 1864, Brigadier-General KELLEY, Cumberland, Md. :

GENERAL: I have the honor to represent, for the information of the general commanding, that small parties of guerrillas and horsethieves infest Jefferson and Loudoun Counties, to the great annoyance and loss of the Government and of all loyal citizens. To clear the two counties of this mischief, and for the purpose of a more perfect picket and patrol along the line of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, which is, by the removal of the infantry guards, so much exposed to danger from these same marauders, I have the honor

respectfully