HEADQUARTERS SECOND ARMY CORPS, April 1, 1865-8.30 p.m.

Brevet Captain HOWELL, U. S. Engineers,
Headquarters Army of the Potomac:

General Humphreys wishes the 1,100 men at work corduroying sent back to their commands at once, and they will be returned to you as soon as they can be spared. Please notify me of your action.

CHAS. A. WHITTIER,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, April 1, 1865.

Lieutenant Colonel C. A. WHITTIER,
Assistant Adjutant-General, Second Army Corps:

COLONEL: I shall need the detail of 1,100 men and tools for three days more, if you can spare them, to corduroy a road immediately in rear of Second Corps from Armstrong's Mill to Boydton road.

C. W. HOWELL,

Corps of Engineers.

APRIL 1, 1865-12.40 a.m.

General HUMPHREYS:

I have just received your dispatch by Captain Wister. Under the order to withdraw at once I thought we each could do so individually, under the cover of darkness, and so ordered. I have since received orders to attack the enemy with two divisions, sending one down the plank road to report to General Sheridan, and do so to-morrow. My artillery, five four-gun batteries, under General Wainwright, will remain on the line of the plank road. I think the enemy that drove General Sheridan to-day must withdraw to-night. I have a brigade on the road north from J. Boisseau's. I have now orders to move against the force that attacked Sheridan to-day and shall send all I have to move there or wherever the firing of a battle near us may indicate.

Respectfully,

G. K. WARREN,

Major-General.

General Crawford, on receipt of order by return of staff officer, to halt and wait further orders.

G. K. W.

APRIL 1, 1865-3,24 a.m.

Major-General HUMPHREYS:

The line at present does not rest on Gravelly Run, but one-third of a mile from a large branch of the run.

For Major-General Warren:

FRED. T. LOCKE,

Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.