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

Page 261 Chapter LVIII. CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.- UNION.


HEADQUARTERS SIXTH CORPS,
March 29, 1865 - 4.10 p. m.

Major-General PARKE:

The enemy show more activity and stronger working parties in my front than heretofore; otherwise there is no movement of any kind discoverable by the pickets or from the signal tower. Your dispatch in reference to a movement of troops in your front just received, and I have directed a good lookout to be kept in consequence to detect any movement.

H. G. WRIGHT,

Major-General, Commanding.


HEADQUARTERS NINTH ARMY CORPS,
March 29, 1865.

Major-General WRIGHT:

Heavy cannonading on my lines. No report as yet.

JNO. G. PARKE,

Major-General.


HEADQUARTERS NINTH ARMY CORPS,
March 29, 1865 - 10.45 p. m.

Major-General WRIGHT,

Commanding Sixth Corps:

The enemy threw up a number of rockets and then opened with mortars, and picket-firing increased all along the line.

JNO. G. PARKE,

Major-General.


HEADQUARTERS NINTH ARMY CORPS,
March 29, 1865 - 11.05 p. m.

Major-General WRIGHT,

Commanding Sixth Corps:

The cannonading is confined entirely to my front.

JNO. G. PARKE,

Major-General.


HEADQUARTERS THIRD DIVISION, SIXTH ARMY CORPS,
March 29, 1865.

Colonel W. S. TRUEX,

Commanding First Brigade:

COLONEL: The general commanding the division directs that you immediately send the two largest regiments of your brigade to occupy the line from Fort Gregg to Fort Cummings (inclusive of the last fort), the senior officer of the two regiments to report here at once for instructions.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

O. V. TRACY,

Brevet Major and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.


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