APRIL 7, 1865-5.10 p. m.

(Received 6.40 p. m.)

General WEBB:

Your dispatch of 3.50 p. m., ordering me to assist General Humphreys in reference to affairs in front of Second Corps, is received, and I have shown it to General Grant, who is here, and who will direct in the absence of General Meade. The pontoon train of the Twenty-fourth Corps has been ordered up, and as soon as it is thrown I will cross and move promptly to the support of the Second Corps. Yours of 4.30 just received.*

WRIGHT,

General.

HEADQUARTERS SIXTH ARMY CORPS,
April 7, 1865.

Major-General WEBB:

I have the honor to report that the infantry of the corps has crossed the river, and are now in camp; but owing to the difficulty in fording the stream the artillery and trains are obliged to wait until the pontoon bridge is laid. My headquarters are near a small house in the vicinity of the burnt bridge and near the road.

H. G. WRIGHT,

Major-General, Commanding.

(Same to General Rawlins.)

HEADQUARTERS NINTH ARMY CORPS,
April 7, 1865.

Major-General WEBB,

Chief of Staff:

Your dispatch of yesterday just received. I will start our ambulance train at once for Burkeville. Doctor Dalton, the medical director, will go there and make all preparations to receive and properly care for the wounded.

JNO. G. PARKE,

Major-General.

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC,
April 7, 1865.

COMMANDING OFFICER NINTH CORPS:

I send to Burke's Station 1,300 prisoners from Second Corps. You are directed to ration the regiment guarding them. They are without any rations. Colonel Brown [Burns?], Seventy-third New York, has charge of prisoners.

ALEX. S. WEBB,

Brevet Major-General and Chief of Staff.

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*Reference may be to dispatch of 3.40 p. m., p. 630.

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