HEADQUARTERS TWENTY-FIFTH ARMY CORPS,
March 29, 1865.

Lieutenant General U. S. GRANT:

The following dispatch has just been received from Cobb's Hill tower, 11 a. m.:

A column of about 4,000 cavalry passed on the turnpike, going toward Petersburg, and are still passing.

G. WEITZEL,

Major-General.

HEADQUARTERS TWENTY-FIFTH ARMY CORPS,
March 29, 1865.

Lieutenant-General GRANT:

The following dispatch just received from Cobb's Hill tower, 11.25 a. m.:

About 1,000 more cavalry passed in same direction. The whole column occupied fifty minutes in passing. Were marching fast. Their wagons are none passing.

G. WEITZEL,

Major-General.

HEADQUARTERS TWENTY-FIFTH ARMY CORPS,
March 29, 1865.

Lieutenant General U. S. GRANT:

Hunton's brigade, of Pickett's division, is on this side James, instead of Corse's. Three brigades of Fitzhugh Lee's cavalry went through Richmond yesterday toward South Side road.

G. WEITZEL,

Major-General.

HEADQUARTERS TWENTY-FIFTH ARMY CORPS, ARMY OF THE JAMES,
In the Field, Va., March 29, 1865. (Via City Point.)

Lieutenant General U. S. GRANT:

A reconnaissance on my left this morning, where it was reported the enemy had withdrawn forces, developed no change. No change observed or reported anywhere else in my front.

G. WEITZEL,

Major-General.

CITY POINT, March 29, 1865.

General WEITZEL:

About 4 p. m. the enemy attacked Griffin's division, of the Fifth Army Corps, at the point where the Quaker road intersects the Boydton plank. Griffin repulsed him, capturing sixty prisoners. No further particulars. Will furnish you all the news I receive.

T. S. BOWERS,

Assistant Adjutant-General.