HDQRS. ENGINEER BRIGADE AND DEFENSES CITY POINT,
April 2, 1865.

Major-General MEADE,

Commanding Army of the Potomac:

Your dispatch received on my lines at 10 a.m. Collis' command, about 1,000 men, ordered at once to Meade's Station to report to General Parke. I go with about 800 more of engineers at once to join them.

H. W. BENHAM,

Brigadier-General.

HDQRS. ENGINEER BRIGADE AND DEFENSES CITY POINT,
April 2, 1865-10 a.m.

Major-General PARKE,

Commanding Ninth Corps:

Your dispatch just received while on my lines. I start at once Colli's command under Colonel Tippin by railroad to Meade's Station to report to you there. I follow as soon as possible with 700 to 800 more of engineers.

H. W. BENHAM,

Brigadier-General.

HEADQUARTERS NINTH ARMY CORPS,
April 2, 1865.

General BENHAM:

General Parke directs that you move your troops along the corduroy road to the rear of Fort Sedgwick, where an officer will meet you with orders.

Respectfully,

JNO. C. YOUNGMAN,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

CITY POINT, April 2, 1865.

Brigadier-General BENHAM,

Commanding Engineer Brigade, Headquarters Ninth Army Corps:

General Patrick informs me that Colonel Bowers has telegraphed for permission to order back the garrison of this post, as there are 10,000 prisoners here and no troops to guard them; so I hold the horses, clerks, &c., until I hear again from you. Smith sent the best horses he had and all the horses without breaking up the teams.

CHANNING CLAPP,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS POST,
City Point, Va., April 2, 1865.

Captain SCHOONMAKER,

Acting Assistant Adjutant-General, Ninth Army Corps:

Colonel Bowers directs that the troops of this command report to General Benham at the entrenchments immediately.

W. H. WHYTE,

Lieutenant and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.