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Page 638 N. AND SE. VA., W. VA., MD., AND PA. Chapter LVIII.

BURKEVILLE, April 7, 1865-9 p. m.

Brigadier-General COLLIS:

Send forward without delay the Eleventh and Fourteenth Regulars now at City Point. Let them go to Petersburg by rail, or farther if they can, and from there march on the road parallel with the railroad to this place.

By command of Lieutenant-General Grant:

T. S. BOWERS,

Assistant Adjutant-General.


HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF WASHINGTON, TWENTY-SECOND ARMY CORPS,
Washington, D. C., April 7, 1865.

General GAMBLE,

Commanding, Fairfax Court-House:

I wish you to ascertain if Mosby and his command are still in Loudoun or Fauquier Counties yet.

C. C. AUGUR,

Major-General.

HARPER'S FERRY, April 7, 1865.

General MORGAN,

Chief of Staff:

A party of Mosby's men about fifty strong crossed and recrossed railroad on yesterday near Summit Point. They went up to the neighborhood of Baylor's.

Respectfully,

JOHN D. STEVENSON,

Brigadier-General.

CLARKSBURG, April 7, 1865.

Major-General EMORY,

Cumberland, Md.:

I have just received the following dispatch from the officer in command at Buckhannon:

A woman from Crab Bottom arrived here to-day, April 7. Reports Imoden and Jackson are preparing to make raid in this country. She could not tell their numbers.

Forwarded for information of the major-general commanding.

J. W. MCMILLAN,

Brevet Major-General.

BALTIMORE, MD., April 7, 1865.

Mr. CRAWFORD,

Supt. Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore Railroad:

A detail of two commissioned officers and forty enlisted men of the Eighth U. S. Infantry will be at your depot at 9 o'clock or soon after, to go by special train to Havre de Grace to join the guard already there


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