HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF WASHINGTON,
TWENTY-SECOND ARMY CORPS

April 5, 1865

Commander PARKER, U. S. Navy,

Saint Inigoes, Md.;

This morning at 2 o'clock steamer Harriet De Ford was captured in Chesapeake Bay at Fair Haven, thirty miles below Annapolis by a party of twenty guerrillas commanded by Captain Fitzhugh. She is a one-masted propeller, with upper works painted drab. After capture she sailed in pursuit of a propeller towing two Government barges down the bay.

Respectfully,

J. H. TAYLOR,

Chief of Staff and Assistant Adjutant-General.

WAR DEPARTMENT,

Washington, D. C., April 5, 1865-11 p.m.

Major General JOHN A. DIX,

New York:

General Grant telegraphs to this Department from Nottoway Court-House as follows.*

Sheridan reports Lee at Amelia Court-House to-day.

EDWIN M. STANTON,

Secretary of War.

SACRAMENTO, CAL., April 5, 1865.

Honorable E. M. STANTON,

Secretary of War:

Your dispatches received. California sends you heartfelt congratulations, and invokes God's blessing on the armies of the Union.

F. F. LOW,

Governor.

NEW YORK CITY, April 5, 1865.

Honorable E. M. STANTON,

The New York East Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church now in session in this city, have adopted resolutions of congratulation to the Government on the recent victories won under the blessing of God by our noble army. This conference was the first ecclesiastical body in the United States, after the fall of Sumter, to declare its loyalty to the flag, and its purpose to aid the Government in its effort to subdue the rebellion and maintain the national life. The conference also appointed if consistent with the arrangements of the Government, Rev. Daniel Curry, D. D., Rev. G. R. Crooks, D. D., and Honorable M. F. Odell, a delegation to represent it at Charleston and Sumter, on the 14th instant, and to take such part in the services of the occasion as the authorities may appoint.

E. R. AMES,

President.

G. W. WOODRUFF,

Secretary.

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*See p. 572, beginning, "Last night General Sheridan."

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