CIRCULAR.] HEADQUARTERS FIFTH ARMY CORPS, April 12, 1865.

Division commanders are directed to notify their pickets to be on the alert to-night, as it is reported that a good many of the enemy's calvary and guerrillas are lurking about.

By command of Brevet Major-General Griffin:

FRED. T. LOCKE,

Brevet Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. FIRST BRIGADE, FIRST DIVISION, FIFTH ARMY CORPS, Camp Near Appomattox Court-House, Va., Numbers 721.
April 12, 1865.

I. In obedience to General Orders, Numbers 8, from headquarters First Division, Fifth Army Corps, April 11, 1865, the undersigned hereby assumes command of this brigade.

A. L. PEARSON,

Brevet Brigadier-General.

ORDERS.] HEADQUARTERS SIXTH CORPS, April 12, 1865.

The corps will continue the march to Burkeville at 7 a. m. to-morrow in the following order: First, First Division; second, Second Division; third, Third Division; fourth Artillery Brigade.

Major Cawan will direct one battery to report to the commanding officer of the leading division to accompany it on the march.

Corps headquarters train will follow this battery; the other headquarters trains and ambulances will follow this battery; the other headquarters trains and ambulances will follow the divisions to which they belong. The troops will march on the side of the road as far as practicable, giving the road to the artillery and trains. Should the batteries fall behind the column the commanding officer of the Third Division will detail a sufficient force to protect them.

By command of Major-General Wright:

C. H. WHITTELSEY,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. FIRST DIV., NINTH ARMY CORPS, Numbers 11.
April 12, 1865.

I. Major Oldam, commanding cavalry division, will guard the south side approaches to Wilson's Station, relieving Colonel Bintliff's pickets for one mile on that side of the railroad.

II. Colonel Ralph Ely, commanding Second Brigade, will leave one regiment in reserve at Ford's farm, and move his other three reserve regiments to Ford's Station. He will extend his pickets and guard the railroad and Cox road as far up as Colonel Bintliff's present headquarters on the Beasley farm.

III. Colonel James Bintliff, commanding Third Brigade, will extend his right within one mile of Wellville, relieving the Thirty-eighth Wisconsin, which, on being relieved, will report to its brigade headquarters and be posted by Colonel Harriman in reserve.

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

WM. V. RICHARDS,

Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

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