ORDERS.] HEADQUARTERS SECOND ARMY CORPS,

April 7, 1865.

This corps will be ready to move at early daylight to-morrow. The general supply train will be at Farmville to-morrow. The amount of subsistence, forage, and ammunition will be kept up to that prescribed by existing orders, and empty wagons will be sent to the nearest depot to be replenished.

By command of Major-General Humphreys:

C. A. WHITTIER,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS FIRST DIVISION, SECOND ARMY CORPS,
April 7, 1865-4 a. m.

Lieutenant Colonel C. A. WHITTIER,

Assistant Adjutant-General, Second Corps:

COLONEL: The enemy have evacuated their position and withdrawn from my front. Please let me know if I shall follow them.

Very respectfully,

N. A. MILES,

Brevet Major-General.

HEADQUARTERS FIRST DIVISION, SECOND ARMY CORPS,
April 7, 1865.

Lieutenant Colonel C. A. WHITTIER,

Assistant Adjutant-General, Second Army Corps:

COLONEL: I am on the Farmville road. There is an immense wagon train moving in a westerly direction on the Buckingham road. I am wheeling my skirmish line upon the enemy.

N. A. MILES,

Brevet Major-General.

HEADQUARTERS SECOND ARMY CORPS,
April 7, 1865-5 p. m.

General MILES:

General Humphreys has sent for the Twenty-fourth Corps. It will probably move upon the Farmville road.

C. A. WHITTIER,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS SECOND ARMY CORPS,
April 7, 1865.

General MILES:

General Seth Williams is here with a communication from General Grant to General Lee.* It is desired to get this through the lines to-night. Can you fix it, do you think, on your picket-line to-night, and how? Please send answer at once by the orderly of yours who brings this

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*See Grant to Lee, 5 p. m. April 7, p. 619.

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