front, you will move at 5 a. m. to-morrow, via Rice's Store, to Farmville, in the meantime reporting your position to these headquarters or giving support to Humphreys or Wright, in case it should be required.

By order of General Meade:

ALEX. S. WEBB,

Brevet Major-General and Chief of Staff.

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC,
April 6, 1865-4 p. m.

Major-General WRIGHT,

Commanding Sixth Corps:

The major-general commanding directs that you continue the direct purusit of the enemy so long as it promises success. Griffin will be sent to the left.

ALEX. S. WEBB,

Brevet Major-General and Chief of Staff.

(Same to Major-General Humphreys, commanding Second Corps.)

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC,
April 6, 1865-4.20 p. m. (Received 5.45 p. m.)

Major-General WRIGHT:

Unless you are in the immediate presence of the enemy you will on receipt of this move by the nearest road to Farmville and report your arrival to these headquarters. You will find there two divisions of the Twenty-fourth Corps. All indications are that the enemy is making for Farmville.

GEO. G. MEADE,

Major-General.

HEADQUARTERS SIXTH ARMY CORPS,
April 6, 1865-5.45 p. m.

Major-General MEADE:

Your dispatch of 4.20 p. m. just received. I am in the immediate presence of the enemy, and am rapidly driving them. Everything is favorable.

H. G. WRIGHT,

Major-General, Commanding.

HEADQUARTERS SIXTH ARMY CORPS,
April 6, 1865-9.10 p. m.

Major-General WEBB:

In pursuance with instructions of this morning from Major-General Meade, I moved via Jetersville by the shortest practicable road to the left of Datonsville, with the object of there taking position on left of the Second Corps, striking the road running from Deatonsville to Burke's Station at a point a little to the southward of the former place. I found that the Second Corps was engaged to the front and right and the cavalry heavily to my left. Moving down the road toward Burke's