HEADQUARTERS INFANTRY DIVISION,
April 4, 1865-7.30 p.m.

Major-General WEITZEL:

I have ordered one brigade of 2,000 men and a light battery to proceed at once to Petersburg and report to officer in command. Will send the remainder of troops on the general's return.

E. FERRERO

Brevet Major-General.

HEADQUARTERS INFANTRY DIVISION,
Defenses of Bermuda Hundred, April 4, 1865.

Colonel GEORGE C. KIBBE,

Commanding Second Brigade:

COLONEL: You will proceed at once with your brigade and report to the commanding officer at Petersburg. March by way of Cobb's Hill Tower and Broadway Landing, and take the Thirty-third New York Independent Battery, Captain Wheeler (which lies to the left of Battery Burpee), along with you. Captain Wheeler has been ordered to move with you and under your command.

By order of Brevet Major-General Ferrero:

GEO. A. HICKS,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE JAMES,
Wilson's Station, South Side Railroad, April 4, 1865.

General GRAHAM,

Commanding, Portsmouth, Va.:

Send a party of cavalry out toward Weldon as far as you can to get intelligence of Colonel Sumner, to return to-morrow night, and report by telegraph what they learn.

E. O. C. ORD,

Major-General.

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE JAMES,
Wilson's Station, South Side Railroad, April 4, 1865

General GORDON,

Commanding District of Eastern Virginia:

General Ludlow and garrison of Williamsburg are directed to report for duty to General Weitzel for duty near Richmond.

E. O. C. ORD,

Major-General.

RICHMOND, April 4, 1865

Brigadier-General GORDON,

Norfolk, Va.:

General Ord has ordered me to withdraw the garrison at Williamsburg and to order General Ludlow and his command to report to me.

G. WEITZEL,

Major-General.