APRIL 3, 1865.

Major-General WARREN,

Bermuda:

General Grant directs me to inform you that you will be assigned to command City Point, Petersburg, and troops along the South Side Railroad. General Meade will make the order.

T. S. BOWERS,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

BERMUDA LINE, April 3, 1865.

(Received 12.15 p.m.)

Colonel T. S. BOWERS:

COLONEL: The enemy abandoned in the Howlett House Battery one 8-inch rifled gun, cast-iron, with breech band, two 10-inch columbiads, one 10-inch sea-coast mortar, one 8-inch sea-coast mortar, one 10-pounder Parrott, and all their ammunition. The guns were all spiked.

Respectfully,

G. K. WARREN,

Major-General.

GENERAL GRANT'S HEADQUARTERS,

April 3, 1865.

Major-General HARTSUFF,

Bermuda:

Has the enemy left your front?

U. S. GRANT,

Lieutenant-General.

BERMUDA FRONT, April 3, 1865.

ASSISTANT ADJUTANT-GENERAL,

Grant's Headquarters:

The enemy is reported moving in the direction of Chesterfield Court-House. It is the impression among deserters that they are going to Lynchburg.

GEO. L. HARTSUFF,

Major-General.

BERMUDA FRONT, April 3, 1865.

ASSISTANT ADJUTANT-GENERAL,

Grant's Headquarters:

The following dispatch just received from General Weitzel:

TWENTY-FIFTH ARMY CORPS,

April 3, 1865.

Major-General HARTSUFF:

Await orders from General Grant. I am moving toward Richmond.

G. WEITZEL,

Major-General.

The enemy has evacuated, and I am in possession of his line in my front. If General Warren assumes command here under his order am I relieved or placed under his command? I am his senior.

GEO. L. HARTSUFF,

Major-General.