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

Page 159 Chapter LVIII. CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.-UNION.


HEADQUARTERS NINTH ARMY CORPS,
March 25, 1865-7.25 a. m.

Major-General POTTER:

GENERAL: The general commanding desires to be informed when the Provisional Brigade and when the division of the Sixth Corps arrive at your headquarters.

Respectfully, yours,

P. M. LYDIG,

Assistant Adjutant-General.


HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC,
March 25, 1865-8 a. m.

Major-General POTTER:

GENERAL: The commanding general desires that your order the Provisional Brigade to move without delay and report to General Hartranft. A staff will be ready to show them where the general is.

P. M. LYDIG,

Assistant Adjutant-General.


HEADQUARTERS NINTH ARMY CORPS,
March 25, 1865-8.20 a. m.

Major-General POTTER:

GENERAL: We have recaptured Fort Stedman, and everything is again quiet. Hartranft is reported wounded, but not severely.

P. M. LYDIG,

Assistant Adjutant-General.


HEADQUARTERS NINTH ARMY CORP,
March 25, 1865-1.50 p. m.

Major-General POTTER:

A truce for the purpose of attending to dead and wounded between the lines will exist from 2 to 4 p. m. It limits are from Fort Haskell to Battery 9. Please see that no communication or intercourse of any kind with the enemy take place on your front.

JNO. G. PARKE,

Major-General.


HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC,
March 25, 1865.

Major-General DAVIES,

Commanding Cavalry Division:

Prepare to move all your cavalry, dismounted, to General Parke's right. Move up at once one brigade with houses to serve as dismounted troops, and await orders for the others.

ALEX. S. WEBB,

Brevet Major-General and Chief of Staff.


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