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9. Wilson's Dispatches
:. 49, CAVALRY CoRrs, Jan. 7, 1895.
h6tnoxs o. rm RssL vososs II TEE VALLEY
The latest information from up the valley received by
General Sheridan does not indicate, % fr, that General
Leo d TO stonish the world by moving In this direo
ton Lately there have been some movements OF the
rebel troops In the valley One division OF Earys forces
reported TO be Gordon's division, IL at stauntons 20
grams command is at Gordonsville. There Is brigade
of infantry Charlottesville Lomsx Ind Rosser are
still east and west Of the Blue Ridge,
AN xsolsH osvscxR REBEL sPY.
Not long since an individual, an Engshman, arrived
at Martinsburg and represented himself colonel In
the English service He had with him written request
from high officials In Warrington General Sheridan,
70 be permitted 70 go through the lines General sher
dan accordingly sent the Engshman pass 70 visit his
Sherdan's headquarters Tho recipient Of the pass in
question left Martinsburs circulated through different
parts Of the army, and is missing, and was last
heard Of outside Of the lines The affair viii be inves-
tigated
Captain NJ y. Badger, Assistant Inspector General Of
Cavalry has been promoted 70 maorshp in the Eighth
Ohio cavalry.
ooNTRABAND IMPORTATION.
"relabe conraband, who has just arrived from the
Dixie conscrpton OF negroes reports that the valley s
fun Of colored skedaddle who suffering much travel
ling by night and bound for "Abraham's bosom" whc
their rebel masters and the rebel soldiers hunt them
and hunt them up as though "we's nothin' morn lot
Of wild beasts I"
COLONEL CHARLES FrzsnMoSs,
who was severely wounded last July at Ashbys Gap,
has returned and taken command Of bis regiment the
Twenty first New York cavalry
SINGULAR MISTAKE.
short time since coffin placed on the railroad
platform at harpers Ferry having on j. the following II
Second cavalry divsonn Every one who saw the coffin
believed the General deceased and that his body
inside Of it, Soon report circulated in regard TO his
death. and many were the lamentations at the
loss Of SO gallant an officer. On investigation It
turned out that the coffin was directed thus
to General p and that the same is not dead but still
alive and fighting as usual The coffin sent TO Gen
TO have placed in it the remains of officer who
some time ago killed and buried at Winchester.
on YuRLOuGH
Whites rebel battalion has been furloughed, as
whole for two months The men composing IT are now
scattered in Clark county, recruiting their horses and
visiting their friends
Wives Of officers in camp or at Winchester, have been
ordered 70 the rear at once.
RECOMMENDED BREvET PROMOTIONS.
The following have been recommended for brevet
Major Thomas Gibson Fourteenth Pennsylvania cavalry
70 be lieutenant colonel by breve to rank from August
Z 1884 for gallant and merorious conduct at the battle
OF Moorfeld, Va.
Captain Joseph Ankrom Second West Virginia cavalry
TO be major, Dy Drevet 70 rank from July "a 1904 LOT
gallant mertorous conduct at the battle Of Winches
ter, and for faithful discharge Of duty during the
campaign.
First Lieutenant Samuel Grim, First West Virginia
Veteran cavalry, TO be captain by brevet to rank fom
June H. 1864, for gallant and mertorious conduct in
leading two hundred from Lexington, Va, TO Con-
cord station, the Southside Railroad, and bringing
back his command safely passing through the midst Of
General ImbOden's camp.
First Lieutenant John J. Mcdonald, First Virginia vete
cavalry be captain by brevet to rank from Septem
Der 1884 for gallant and mertorious conduct at the
battle Of Winchester July a. and Bunker Hill, Septem
Der Q, 1884
First Lieutenant W. W Murphy, Fourteenth Pennsyl-
vania cavalry be captain by brevet to rank from June
1894 for gallant and mertoous conduct at the battle
Of Piedmont, Va.
Second Lieutenant Charles A. Benjamin, Twenty first
New York cavalry, to be first lieutenant by brevet TO
rank from July "A, 1884, for gallant and mertorous con-
duct the battle OF Winchester and throughout the en-
tire campaign.
RETURNED
Colonel J. NJ. Schoonmaker has returned TO the army,
and again in command Of his regimcntthe Fourteenth
Pennsylvania cavalry
DISMISSED THE SERVICE
Captain w. A. Powell, First West Virginia cavalry, by
order Of the President