HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC,
March 14, 1865.

General HARDIE,

War Department, Washington:

Please have General Bartlett's commission made out, signed, and forwarded as soon as possible. I am awaiting its arrival to assign him according to his brevet rank.

GEO. G. MEADE,

Major-General, Commanding.

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC,
March 14, 1865-7.15 p.m.

Brigadier-General PATRICK,

City Point:

General Meade is anxious to have General Macy return to these headquarters as soon as possible.

ALEX. S. WEBB,

Brevet Major-General and Chief of Staff.

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC,
March 14, 1865-2.15 p.m.

General MEADE:

I have the honor to state that twenty-four rebel deserters were forwarded to this office to-day, bringing in with them the following property: twenty muskets and three Sharps carbines. The men were representatives of Wallace's, MacRae's, Scales', Cooke's, and Barringer's brigades. An informat of Wallace's brigade, Twenty-third South Carolina, states that it was rumored in the above brigade that Bushrod R. Johnson's division was to move to the right near Hatcher's Run, and that a division from the same place was to move up to the left and occupy Johnson's line. Another informant states that Lane's brigade has moved back into the quarters occupied by the brigade all winter; also taken up the same picket-line. An informant of Barringer's brigade (cavalry) states that Barringer's and Dearing's brigade, under the command of General W. H. F. Lee, have gone to Dinwiddie Courth-House. Broke camp yesterday morning; carried everything with them.

PH. SCHUYLER,

Captain, Fourteenth Infantry, in Charge of Office.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. ARMIES OF THE UNITED STATES, No. 50. City Point, Va., March 14, 1865.

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II. The following-named paroled officers will proceed to their places of residence until such time as they are declared exchanged, when they will rejoin their respective commands: Major General George Crook, U. S. Volunteers; Bvt. Major General B. F. Kelley, U. S. Volunteers; Captain Thayer Melvin, assistant adjutant-general, U. S. Vollunteers.

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