HEADQUARTERS MIDDLE MILITARY DIVISION, April 1, 1865.

General CROOK:

Major-General Sheridan directs you to be in readiness to move immediately. General Warren will attack the enemy at daylight in flank from the Boydton road. There is near your camp 100,000 pounds of forage in charge of Captain Hickey, acting assistant quartermaster. About one-third is for your command.

Respectfully,
M. V. SHERIDAN,

Captain and Aide-de-Camp.

CAVALRY HEADQUARTERS, April 1, 1865-9.20 p.m.

Major-General CROOK,

Commanding Second Cavalry Division:

GENERAL: The major-general commanding directs that you hold fast at Dinwiddie Court-House with the brigade that you have there. The general thinks that you had better remain there yourself with this command.

Very respectfully,

JAS. W. FORSYTH,

Chief of Staff.

HEADQUARTERS CAVALRY CORPS TRAIN, April 1, 1865-4.30 a.m.

Major WEIR,
Assistant Adjutant-General, General Crook's Headquarters:

MAJOR: About twenty wagons and the pontoon train are still on the road where Major Treichel saw the ammunition train at 11 p.m. They have not yet turned off into the telegraph road leading into the Vaughan road. The men and mules are almost exhausted, and it is impossible to get all the train into the Vaughan road by daylight, and probably not before 9 or 10 a.m. Colonel Wells, commanding Second Brigade, Third Division, has detailed all but one battalion of his brigade and can spare no more. We are still doing all in our power.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

H. C. KING,

Major and Quartermaster in Charge.

The ammunition and ambulance trains will probably reach the Vaughan road by daylight.

HEADQUARTERS SECOND DIVISION, CAVALRY CORPS, ARMY OF THE POTOMAC,
Five Forks, [April 1,] 1865-dusk.

General CROOK:

GENERAL: We have routed the enemy at all points, capturing all his artillery. We claim to have 6,000 or 7,000 prisoners; I saw 2,000. The cavalry are doing most splendid. The enemy are going to the