also be sent there for the present. If you can bring down from the North a regiment sooner than it could be got from Hancock you may direct one from there to Haver de Grace.

U. S. GRANT,

Lieutenant-General.

WASHINGTON, D. C., April 15, 1865.

Honorable E. B. WASHBURNE,

City Point:

I will not go to Richmond for ten days or more. I cannot leave here at present.

U. S. GRANT,

Lieutenant-General.

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, April 15, 1865-1 p. m.

Lieutenant General U. S. GRANT:

A dispatch yesterday received from Major-General Gibbon stated that, owing to the large amount of property found at Lynchburg and the condition of the roads, it would require at least a week before it could be all removed. To-day we have a very heavy rain-storm which will protract this operation and render the transmission of supplies to Farmville very difficult.

GEO. G. MEADE,
Major-General.

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, April 15, 1865-2 p. m.

Lieutenant-General GRANT:

I sse by an order, in the Richmond Whig, of Major-General Ord's, that passes to visit Richmond are not to be respected unless signed by the Secretary of War, yourself, or Major-General Ord. I have to request that you will authorize my giving passes to such officers of this army as can be spared who desire to visit Richmond, and, if I am so authorized, that you will notify Major-General ord to that effect.

GEO. G. MEADE,

Major-General.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS FIFTH ARMY CORPS, Numbers --.
April 15, 1865.

The corps will march at 6 a. m. to-morrow and in the following order: First Division, Third Division, Second Division; artillery nd trains in rear. General Ayres will detail one good regiment as rear guard. The corps goes to Farmville to-morrow.

By command of Brevet Major-General Griffin:

FRED. T. LOCKE,

Brevet Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.