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of the railroad guarded by the Ninth Corps. Your troops will, therefore, not extend farther than Sutherland's Station. The order directing you to relieve the Ninth Corps stated from Burke's Station to Petersburg, whereas it should have been from Burke's Station to Sutherland's. Please direct your troops not to relieve those of the Twenty-fourth or Twenty-fifth Corps found beyond Sutherland's Station, and acknowledge receipt of this.
By command of Major-General Meade:
GEO. D. RUGGLES,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
SPECIAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS FIFTH ARMY CORPS, Numbers 93.
Nottoway Court-House, Va., April 24, 1865.I. The following regiments having reported at these headquarters in compliance with Special Orders, Numbers 103, headquarters Army of the Potomac, are assigned to the Second Division, Brevet Major-General Ayres, commanding. The commanding officers of these regiments will report accordingly: One hundred and fourteenth Pennsylvania Volunteers, Colonel and Bvt. Brigadier General C. H. T. Collis; Sixty-eighth Pennsylvania Volunteers, Colonel A. H. Tippin; Sixty-first Massachusetts Volunteers, Colonel Walcott.
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By command of Brevet Major-General Griffin:
FRED. T. LOCKE,
Brevet Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.
HEADQUARTERS FIFTH ARMY CORPS,Notoway Court-House, April 24, 1865.
Brevet Brigadier-General WAINWRIGHT,
Commanding Artillery:
GENERAL: The general commanding directs that you send one battery to Blacks and Whites Station to fire the salutes to-morrow in honor of the late President, the battery to return after having performed this duty. The battery commander will report his arrival to Brevet Major-General Crawford, commanding the post.
I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
FRED. T. LOCKE,
Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.
HEADQUARTERS FIFTH ARMY CORPS,
Nottoway Court-House, April 24, 1865.Brigadier-General CHAMBERLAIN,
Commanding First Division, Wilson's Station:
Please report by telegraph the disposition and location of your troops. Can you say how many prisoners were captured by the First Division at Five Forks April 1?
Respectfully,
FRED. T. LOCKE,
Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.
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