719 Series I Volume XLVI-III Serial 97 - Appomattox Campaign Part III
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SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. ARMIES OF THE UNITED STATES, Numbers 75.
City Point, Va., April 12, 1865.* * * *
By command of Lieutenant-General Grant:
T. S. BOWERS,
Assistant Adjutant-General.APRIL 12, 1865.
Colonel J. C. DUANE,
Chief Engineer:
By General Grant's orders surveys are to be made of defenses of Richmond and Petersburg. By General Grant's orders you will detach what engineers and assistants you can spare for this duty. General Michie is now at work at Richmond, but if you prefer it your force can work independent of him, you taking the defenses south of James and Petersburg, and he taking defenses north of James. Please answer what your wishes are as to its application. Your army will probably remain where it is for some time. I shall move to Richmond to-morrow or next day.
J. G. BARNARD,
Chief Engineer.
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, Burkeville, April 12, 1865-4.15 p.m .Lieutenant General U. S. GRANT:
In accordance with your instructions, the Sixth and Second Corps were yesterday put en route for this place. The Sixth will reach here to-day and the Second to-morrow. Last evening at Farmville Major General Fitzhugh Lee, of the Confederate Army, with five officers of his staff, surrendered themselves to me, and were by my directions sent to report to Major-General Gibbon at Ammomattox Court-House. Major-General Lee stated that on hearing of the surrender of the Confederate army he ordered his command to disperse and return to their homes, and come in himself.
GEO. G. MEADE,
Major-General.
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, Burke's Station, April 12, 1865.Surg. General J. K. BARNES,
U. S. Army, Washington, D. C.:
GENERAL: I arrived here to-day with General Meade in advance of the Second and Sixth Corps from Farmville. Very few of our wounded are yet to the brought down, and they are mainly from corps not of this army. The Confederate hospital at Farmville will accommodate all their wounded attended by their own surgeons. Whatever they need I have supplied or ordered to be supplied. They may be parodied, but
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