July 23. 1861.
1 Let the plan for making the Blockade effective be pushed forward with all possible despatch.
2 Let the volunteer forces at Fort-Monroe &; vicinityunder GenL Butlerbe constantly drilled, disciplined, and instructed without more for the present.
3. Let Baltimore be held, as now, with a gentle, but firm, and certain hand.
4 Let the force now under Patterson, or Banks, be strengthened, and made secure in it's position.
5. Let the forces in Western Virgima act, till further orders, according to instructions, or orders from Gen. McClellan.
6. [Let] Gen. Fremont push forward his organization, and opperations in the West as rapidly as possible, giving rather special attention to Missouri.
7 Let the forces late before Manassas, except the three months men, be reorganized as rapidly as possible, in their camps here and about Arlington
8. Let the three months forces, who decline to enter the longer service, be discharged as rapidly as circumstances will permit.
9 Let the new volunteer forces be brought forward as fast as possible; and especially into the camps on the two sides of the river here.