323 Series I Volume XLVI-III Serial 97 - Appomattox Campaign Part III
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HEADQUARTERS TWENTY-FOURTH CORPS,
March 30, 1865.Major-General TURNER,
Commanding Division:
GENERAL: Please let me know at once the condition of affairs in your front and whether there is any point on the enemy's line where you think a successful assault can be made in the morning.
Respectfully,
JOHN GIBBON,
Major-General of Volunteers, Commanding.
HEADQUARTERS TWENTY-FOURTH ARMY CORPS,
Before Richmond, Va., March 30, 1865.Major General J. W. TURNER,
Commanding Independent Division, Twenty-fourth Corps:
GENERAL: I am directed by the major-general commanding to say that if you have not already got it you will have a bridge made across Hatcher's Run at your left, near the Crow house, so that troops can be moved rapidly to the other side of the run from your position. This must be done to-night, as it is a matter of great importance.
Respectfully, yours,
J. H. POTTER,
Colonel and Chief of Staff.
CAVALRY HEADQUARTERS,
March 30, 1865.
Lieutenant-General GRANT,
Commanding Armies of the United States:
GENERAL: General Merritt is moving out this morning on the road leading from Dinwiddie Court-House to the Five Forks. He will not go as far west as the Five Forks, but will, if there is no opposition, take the right-hand road at J. Boisseau's and get onto the White Oak road. General W. H. F. Lee's division was still at Stony Creek last night. Our trains did not get up last night. The road at the crossing of the swamps was very bad.
Very respectfully,
P. H. SHERIDAN,
Major-General, Commanding.
CAVALRY HEADQUARTERS,
Dinwiddie, March 30, 1865-2.45 p. m.
Lieutenant-General GRANT,
Commanding Armies of the United States:
GENERAL: General Merritt met the enemy's cavalry with one division of cavalry of J. Boisseau's, on the Ford Church road, and drove them right and left on the right and left forks of the road, and now has possession of the White Oak road at Five Forks, also where the right-hand road intersects the White Oak road. Our less was slight, 15 or 20 wounded.
Very respectfully,
P. H. SHERIDAN,
Major-General, Commanding.
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