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HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC,
April 4, 1865-6.30 a.m.Major-General WRIGHT:
Give right of way to the Fifth Corps, Cavalry Corps, and a supply train of Second Corps. Do not move your column unless you can find road parallel to the road these trains are on or can move alongside of them. Send a strong working party, say a brigade, to assist in pushing these trains on. Report if you find you can move.
ALEX. S. WEBB,
Brevet Major-General and Chief of Staff.
P. S. - Send a small force in front of the train reported stuck in the mud.
A. S. W.
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC,
April 4, 1865.COMMANDING OFFICER SIXTH CORPS:
The major-general commanding desires that you march to the Cousins house, on the right-hand side of the road. At or near that point you will meet the trains with four days' rations for your corps and for General Parke (Ninth). You will issue three days' to the men of your command. The Cousins house is just this side of Winticomack Creek.
ALEX. S. WEBB,
Brevet Major-General and Chief of Staff.
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC,
April 4, 1865-3.45 o'clock.Major-General WRIGHT:
If, when you reach the junction of the Wells, and Namozine roads, you find that the train with your rations is not at that point General Meade directs that you make arrangements to insure the trains following you. Of course, if the train be there you will issue the rations.
ALEX. S. WEBB,
Brevet Major-General and Chief of Staff.
APRIL 4, 1865-8 a.m.
Major-General PARKE,
Commanding Ninth Corps:
The general commanding directs that you detach your smallest division to accompany the supply train, now at the junction of the Cox and Namozine roads, as a train guard. General Willcox, as soon as he can be relieved from Petersburg, will be ordered up to this point.
ALEX. S. WEBB,
Brevet Major-General and Chief of Staff.
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC,
April 4, 1865-2 p.m.Major-General PARKE:
General Wright will move up to the Cousins house at Winticomack Creek. You will close well up upon his trains. At the junction of the
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