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HEADQUARTERS SECOND CORPS,
March 31, 1865-8.40 a. m.*Brevet Major-General WEBB,
Chief of Staff:
The position of my troops this morning is: Hays extending from right, near Crow house, to Taylor house; Mott from Taylor hourse to Boydton plank road. Miles has relieved Griffin in his position, but Griffin has remained some hours. I find that Miles is strong enough in Griffin's position to admit of my putting De Trobriand's brigade in a little more central position, from which it can move in a few minutes to the left.
A. A. HUMPHREYS,
Major-General, Commanding.
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC,
March 31, 1865.COMMANDING OFFICER SECOND ARMY CORPS:
Owing to the weather no change will to-day be made in the present position of the troops. Three days' rations of subsistence and forage will be brought up and issued to the troops and the artillery and wagons authorized to accompany them. The empty supply wagons will be sent to the rear to be refilled at the railroad terminus. The chief engineer and corps commanders will use every exertion to make practicable the roads to the rear and communicating with their several commands.
By command of Major-General Meade:
GEO. D. RUGGLES,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
(Same to other corps commanders.)
HEADQUARTERS SECOND ARMY CORPS,
March 31, 1865-9.10 a. m.Bvt. Major General A. S. WEBB,
Chief of Staff:
There has been and is some picket-firing on the left of Miles. this is all the firing I have heard, though I have directed all the division commanders to feel in their fronts, try to capture some prisoners, and ascertain what force of the enemy is no my front, and where I could attack, if it should be necessary.
A. A. HUMPHREYS,
Major-General, Commanding.
HEADQUARTERS SECOND ARMY CORPS,
March 31, 1865-10.15 a. m.Brevet Major-General WEBB,
Chief of Staff:
In answer to inquiry as to cause of firing, I have the honor to report that General Miles sent out about sixty men, who attacked the enemy's
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*In Humphreys' telegrams-sent book this dispatch is timed 7.40 a. m.
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