RICHMOND, VA., April 11, 1865.

Lieutenant Colonel J. A. HARDIE,

Washington City:

Your dispatch received. The order will be issued in accordance therewith.

G. WEITZEL,

Major-General.

RICHMOND, VA., April 11, 1865. (Received 9.10 p. m.)

Lieutenant Colonel J. A. HARDIE,

Inspector-General:

I have the honor to request authority, through the War Department, of His Excellency the President of the United States to state to the honorable Secretary of War conversations, suggestions, and orders which took place and were given me confidentially, in order that I amy enable the honorable Secretary of War to judge correctly of action in regard to the churches and prayers place. Not having authority to divulge these things, I am convinced my action has been judged incorrectly. With regard to Mr. Dana's statement, it is a matter between him and my chief of staff, General Shepley.

G. WEITZEL,

Major-General.

WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington City, April 11, 1865-5.30 p. m.

Major-General WEITZEL,

Richmond:

The remains of Coloenl Dahlgrem, who was killed as you will remember and buried at Richmond, are reported to have been secretly disinterred and reburied for their safe-keeping near the house of one Robert Orrick, at Hungary Station, nine miles from Richmond. You will take immediate measures to ascertain if the report be true, and secure the remains and send them with a guard of honor to Washington. Care should be taken to identify them with certainty. If not there spare no effort to find and secure them and report speedily.*

EDWIN M. STANTON,

Secretary of War.

RICHMOND, VA., April 11, 1865.

Major-General HARTSUFF:

The First New York Mounted Rifles, Colonel Sumner, from Norfolk, have been ordered to report to you.

G. WEITZEL,

Major-General.

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*For correspondence relating to the subject of Dahlgren';s burial, &c., see Vol. XXXIII, pp. 180, 181.

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