HEADQUARTERS ARMIES OF THE UNITED STATES,
Washington, D. C., April 17, 1865.

Colonel A. H. MARKLAND,

Special Agent of the P. O. Department, Washington City:

COLONEL: Lieutenant-General Grant directs that no mail matter be sent to Richmond addressed to citizens of that place until further orders. He furather directs that you unseal and examine all letters in the mails addressed to citizens of Richmond and forward to these headquarters all such as contain contraband information.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

T. S. BOWERS,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, Numbers 16.
April 17, 1865.

In obedience to General Orders, Numbers 69, current series, from the War Department, the flags at all camps and stations in this army will be kept at half-mast during Wednesday next, the day appointed for the funeral of the late President of the United States, and all labor will be suspended for the day thoughout the limits of this command. The commanding officer of the Ninth Army Corps is charged with the execution of this order at the detached camps and stations under his orders. Twenty-one minute guns will be fired under direction of the chief of artillery at 12 m. on the day mentioned.

By command of Major-General Meade:

GEO. D. RUGGLES,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

SPECIAL OARDERS,
HDQRS. ARMIES OF THE UNITED STATES, Numbers 77.
Washington, D. C., April 17, 1865.

I. Major General George G. Meade, commanding Army of the Potomac, will, while his army remains within the Department of Virginia, report to Major General H. W. Halleck, commanding Military Division of the James.

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By command of Lieutenant-General Grant:

T. S. BOWERS,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQURTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC,

April 17, 1865.-9.45 p. m. (Received 1 a. m. 18th.)

Lieutenant General U. S. Grant:

Major-General Gibbon reports his arrival to-day at Prospect Station, having completed the duty assigned him at Appomattox Court-House. Brevet Major-General Griffin, commanding Fift Corps, reached this point to-day with his command. The Second, and Fifth Corps are now encamped in the vicinity of Burkeville. Major-General Parke reports all quiet along the line of the railroad. Brevet Major-General