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HEADQUARTERS SIXTY ARMY CORPS,
March 25, 1865. (Received 6 a. m.)Brevet Major-General HUNT:
Does Parke need help? I can, if necessity, send a division, and still hold my lines pretty stoutly.
H. G. WRIGHT,
Major-General, Commanding Sixty Army Corps.
(Copy to General Parke.)
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC,
March 25, 1865-6.05 a. m.Major-General WRIGHT:
Send that division at once. The enemy is reported at McLaughlen's headquarters. Notify one of the corps commanders next you of the fact.
S. F. BARSTOW,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
HEADQUARTERS SIXTH ARMY CORPS,
March 25, 1865.Colonel S. F. BARSTOW:
The First Division of this corps has gone to Major-General Parke. Generals Humphreys and Warren have been notified of the fact and of the enemy's movements.
H. G. WRIGHT,
Major-General.
HEADQUARTERS NINTH ARMY CORPS,
March 25, 1865-6.20 a. m.Major-General WRIGHT:
Are there any demonstration on your front? Can you send ma any troops? It is reported that two corps are on our front, and I fear the enemy is gaining ground.
JNO. G. PARKE,
Major-General.
MARCH 25, 1865.
Major-General PARKE,
Commanding Ninth Army Corps.
There are no demonstration ion my front. Orders have been sent for one division to report to you immediately.
H. G. WRIGHT,
Major-General.
[MARCH 25, 1865.] (Sent 9 a. m.)
General WRIGHT:
Thank you kindly. I think it would be well to let the division remain for some time until I can hear further from the line and from General Meade.
JNO. G. PARKE,
Major-General.
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