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connection with one of Warren's would close the line between them. Upon reading your dispatch (respecting Warren's having the White Oak road) to General Miles, as I was riding with him from the left of his line, where a road ran to the White Oak road at the point held by Warren, he said that he had held that point in the White Oak road, but had moved from it to his right to connect, as both his flanks were in air. He asked me to say so, which I therefore do. I have ordered the line to be entrenched and slashed.
A. A. HUMPHREYS,
Major-General.
HEADQUARTERS SECOND ARMY CORPS,
March 31, 1865-8.15 p.m. (Received 2.45 a.m. April 1.)General WEBB:
I think I have put 400 men killed and wounded to-day. There are 375 wounded in hospital now reported. My provost-marshal has received about 150 prisoners, but General Miles reports his provost-marshal sending more than 100 and that his Fourth Brigade sent in 160 prisoners besides, and his Third Brigade 124. General Miles says he thinks that a large portion of the prisoners captured by his division passed through the Fifth Corps lines.
A. A. HUMPHREYS,
Major-General.
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC,
March 31, 1865-8.55 p.m.(Sent 9.10 p.m.)
General HUMPHREYS,
Commanding Second Corps:
The major-general commanding directs that you will retake the position of this morning, holding as far as Mrs. Butler's* and the return. General Warren will be massed, free to go in any direction.
A. S. WEBB,
Brevet Major-General and Chief of Staff.
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC,
March 31, 1865-9.15 p.m. (Sent 9.25 p.m.)General HUMPHREYS,
Commanding Second Corps:
The major-general commanding directs that you retake the position of this morning, holding as far as Mrs. Butler and the return to the left. General Warren is to be left free to act and is to send a division to General Sheridan at once.
ALEX. S. WEBB,
Brevet Major-General and Chief of Staff.
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*In the copy received by General Humphreys the dispatch reads after "Mrs. Butler's as follows: "General Warren will hold the line within the Boydton plank road."
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