II. The Seventeenth Michigan Volunteers will act as provost guard for the district occupied by the troops of this command, under charge of Lieutenant Colonel F. W. Swift.

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IV. At daylight to-morrow morning the lines will be extended as follows:

V. The Second Brigade will extend up to Ford's Station and guard Ford's Station.

VI. The Third Brigade from Ford's Station to one mile above Wilson's Station.

VII. The First Brigade from one mile above Wilson's Station to Blacks and Whites.

By command of Bvt. Major General O. B. Willcox:

WM. V. RICHARDS,

Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

FARMVILLE, April 8, 1865.

Major-General SHERIDAN:

Make a details from your own command to go with the ambulances of the Fifth Corps to collect in your wounded. I think Lee will surrender to-day. I addressed him on the subject last evening and received a reply this morning asking the terms I wanted. We will push him until terms are agreed upon.

U. S. GRANT,

Lieutenant-General.

CAVALRY HEADQUARTERS,

Buffalo River, April 8, 1865.

Lieutenant-General GRANT,

Commanding Armies of the United States:

GENERAL: I respectfully inclose a dispatch from General Merritt. If this is correct the enemy must have taken the fine road north of the Appomattox Rivere. I will move on Appomattox Court-House. Should we not intercept the enemy and he be forced into Lynchburg his surrender then is beyond question.

P. H. SHERIDAN,

Major-General.

[Inclosure.]

APRIL 8, 1865-12 p. m.-noon.

Brigadier-General FORSYTH,

Chief of Staff:

GENERAL: I have just returned from the front. All quiet. I sent a force toward Appomattox Court-House and remained till it returned. The officer in command reports a thin line of the enemy. No disposition shown by the enemy to attack us. When I got to the front every-thing was well arranged, and there was no advance of thee enemy's infantry.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

W. MERRITT,

Brevet Major-General.