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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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