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

Page 733 Chapter LVIII. CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.-UNION.

NOTTOWAY COURT-HOUSE, April 13, 1865. (Received 8 p.m .)

General RAWLINS,

Chief of Staff:

My headquarters are here; also the three divisions of cavalry. It is an excellent place to refit the command.

P. H. SHERIDAN,

Major-General, Commanding.

NOTTOWAY COURT-HOUSE, April 13, 1865. (Received 8 p. m.)

General RAWLINS,

Chief of Staff:

The officers and men of the First and Third Divisions of cavalry brought with them from Winchester only the clothes they wore on their persons and are badly off. All the trains and baggage of these divisions are at Harper's Ferry. Would it be best to order them down?

P. H. SHERIDAN,

Major-General, Commanding.

SPECIAL FIELD ORDERS,
CALVARY HEADQUARTERS, Numbers 22. Nottoway Court-House, Va., April 13, 1865.

A national salute in honor of the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia will be fired to-morrow by the batteries of this command, commencing in the First Division at 9 a. m. The artillery of the Second and Third Divisions will follow in succession in the order named.

By command of Major-General Sheridan:

F. C. NEWHALL,

Assistant Adjutant-General.


HEADQUARTERS SIXTH ARMY CORPS, April 13, 1865.

Major General P. H. SHERIDAN,
Commanding Cavalry:

GENERAL: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of this date requesting me to make a report of the operations, of the Sixth Corps at the battle of Sailor's Creek on the 6th instant, and to state in reply that, as I informed you on the day of the battle, I was under the orders of Major-General Meade, to whose army my corps belonged, and that I should make my report to him. My preliminary report of the battle of Sailor's Creek was sent to Brevet Major-General Webb, chief of staff, Army of the Potomac, on the night of the 6th instant.

I am, general, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

H. G. WRIGHT,

Major-General, Commanding.


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