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197 Series I Volume XLVI-III Serial 97 - Appomattox Campaign Part III

Page 197 Chapter LVIII. CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.-UNION.

CITY POINT, VA., March 27, 1865.

Major-General MEADE:

The Chronicle of yesterday gives my dispatches differently from what they were written. I had no estimate of our losses in the Ninth Corps, and placed our loss there about 800, probably less. The enemy's loss in front of that corps I estimated at 3,000 all told, killed, wounded, and captured. I was not aware at the time the published dispatches were written that the Sixth Corps had accomplished anything or lost anything. Subsequent dispatches, which will probably be published in to-day's papers, give the lates information corrected, so far as I know it.

U. S. GRANT,

Lieutenant-General.


HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, OFFICE OF PROVOST-MARSHAL-GENERAL,
March 27, 1865.

Brevet Brigadier-General SHARPE,

City Point:

Steuart's brigade, of Pickett's division, arrived in our front yesterday morning; is camped near Battery 45; said to be all of the division that came this way. No other changes of importance.

J. C. B[ABCOCK].

WALTHAL SIGNAL STATION,

March 27, 1865-6.30 p. m.

Major PAINE,

Chief Signal Officer, Ninth Army Corps,

Lieutenant BENSON,

Adjutant, Signal Corps Army of the Potomac:

All quiet this p. m. At 1.30 p. m. a train of four box-cars passed toward Richmond. At 4 p. m. a company infantry drilling on Dunn's Hill. The following have been intercepted:

10.15 A. M.

Major P.:

One company infantry just passed Battery 5 toward enemy's left.

W.,

Sergeant, at D.

11.40 A. M.

Colonel B.:

No change. Two gun-boats off Port Walthall; one below Point of Rocks.

R.,

Sergeant, at C.

(Same to A. B.)

12.40 P. M.

Major P.:

The body of cavalry reported about a bridge took forty minutes at a walk to pass a given point, and was followed by six wagons. Three more bodies, supposed to be regiments, passed to enemy's left.

W.,

Sergeant, at D.


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