ride down there and will let you know. I shall keep pushing forward as soon as my connection are established, to see where the enemy is on my whole front.

A. A. HUMPHREYS,

Major-General, Commanding.

P. S.- Redoubt of main line is visible on the other side if the run. Miles' left is now in connection with Warren's right.

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC,
March 30, 1865 - 9.40 a. m.

Major-General HUMPHREYS:

General Meade directs me to acknowledge your dispatch by Lieutenant Humphreys. He thinks you will be able to hold with your corps to Hatcher's Run, thus rendering General Turner's division available to cross Hatcher's Run and assist an advance of General Ord's troops.

LEX. S. WEBB,

Brevet Major-General and Chief of Staff.

HEADQUARTERS SECOND ARMY CORPS,
March 30, 1865 - 11 a. m.

General WEBB,

Chief of Staff:

It looks to me as if the attack were going to be on Warren and not on Ord.

A. A. HUMPHREYS,

Major-General, Commanding.

HEADQUARTERS SECOND ARMY CORPS,
Boydton Plank Road, March 30, 1865 - 11.15 a. m.

Brevet Major-General WEBB:

In reply to your communication of 9.40 received, I can spare General Turner's division for the purpose desired.

A. A. HUMPHREYS,

Major-General.

MARCH 30, 1865. (Received 12.15 p. m.)

Major-General WEBB,

Chief of Staff:

I have two deserters - one from Thirteenth, the other from Thirty-eighth North Carolina, Scales' brigade, Wilcox's division. They left Petersburg between 2 and 3 this morning, and report that the whole of Wilcox's and Heth's division came across Hatcher's-Run at Burgess' Mill and are now in their entrenchments this side of the run. So far as they know Mahone remained near Petersburg. We have two deserters from their skirmish line opposite our left belonging to Gracie's brigade. In a previous dispatch I said tat Turner's division could be spared by me.

A. A. HUMPHREYS,

Major-General, Commanding.

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