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

Page 436 N. AND SE.VA., W.VA.,MD., AND PA. Chapter LVIII.

rear so fast I despair of getting to the front. Our casualties are not large as far as I can learn. The infantry flanked them; the cavalry took breast-works. Divide the glory.

I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

A. H. BIBBER,

Captain and Aide-de-Camp.


HDQRS. SECOND Brigadier, SECOND DIV., CAVALRY CORPS,
April 1, 1865-3 p.m. [a.m.?]

[General SHERIDAN:]

GENERAL: Colonel Savage, Thirteenth Virginia Cavalry, is here wounded; leg amputated. Pickett's division went to Five Forks last evening, and the rebel cavalry are said to have left for there about 10 or 11 a.m. [p.m.?] I have sent a reconnaissance toward the Forks.

Very respectfully,

J. IRVIN GREGG,

Brevet Brigadier-General of Volunteers.


HDQRS. SECOND Brigadier, SECOND DIV., CAVALRY CORPS, April 1, 1865.

[General SHERIDAN:]

GENERAL: I am at the junction of the Ford road and Dinwiddie road. Have connected with the Second West Virginia Cavalry one mile from this point in direction of the Forks. A few rebels are in my front, on what I call the Dinwiddie road. Have just sent a regiment to drive them. Will send a scout to bridge across Stony Creek, one mile and a half from this point.

Very respectfully,
J. IRVIN GREGG,

Brevet Brigadier-General of Volunteers.

P. S.-A rebel deserters says the infantry went toward Stony Creek from this point. I give the rumor for what it is worth and for your information. Will try to ascertain the truth.

J. I. G.


HDQRS. SECOND Brigadier, SECOND DIV., CAVALRY CORPS, April 1, 1865.

[General SHERIDAN:]

GENERAL: I am just in receipt of report from Lieutenant-Colonel Corrie, commanding Eighth Pennsylvania Cavalry, in which he says he has driven the enemy two miles from this point, on what I call the Dinwiddie Court-House road. From the firing the resistance seems to be determined. The country is all woods. No enemy has moved in the direction of Stony Creek, except a picket of fifteen or twenty men. I send a dispatch of General Lee.

Very respectfully, &c.,
J. IRVIN GREGG,

Brevet Brigadier-General of Volunteers.


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