HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC,
Burke's Station, April 26, 1865-4.45 p. m.

Colonel ROBERT E. WITHERS,

Commanding Post, Danville:

You say: "Truce has been resumed between General Sherman and himself." Does "himself" refer to General Beauregard? Does General B. desire commander of Sixth Corps notified of a truce between his army and General Sherman's?

ALEX. S. WEBB,

Brevet Major-General and Chief of Staff.

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC,
April 26, 1865.

Brevet Brigadier-General NICHOLS,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

GENERAL: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 22nd instant in regard to the non-receipt by me of the order directing a salute of 200 guns to be fired in honor of Lee's surrender, and communicating the remark of the Secretary of War, that it was now too late to comply with it. In this connection I would state that upon the 9th of April, 1865, immediately upon the announcement of the surrender of Lee's army, and on the ground then occupied by this army, upward of 200 guns were fired in honor of the event, and the provisions of the order were thus complied with in advance. The order referred to has not yet come to hand.

GEO. G. MEADE,

Major-General.

CITY POINT, VA., April 26, 1865.

Colonel T. S. BOWERS,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

The Sixth Corps will be within fourteen miles of Danville to-night. It is supplied to May 4. The Engineer Brigade and Railroad Construction Corps will be at the Staunton River rebuilding the bridge to-morrow. The road from Manchester to Danville will be in running order in a few days. The armies have about eight days' forage on hand, and there is an abundance in depot here and at Burkeville. The last of the Ninth Corps will have embarked to-night everything except wagons.

RUFUS INGALLS,

Brigadier-General and Chief Quartermaster.

GENERAL ORDERS,
WAR DEPARTMENT,
ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE, Numbers 74.
Washington, April 26, 1865.

EXTENSION OF THE MILITARY LINES OF THE UNITED STATES.

General Orders, Numbers 70, War Department, Adjutant-General's Office, April 17, 1865, is amended to read as follows:

Ordered, That the military lines of the United States be extended to include within them the States of Virginia and Tennessee, and that all military restrictions upon internal trade within said lines are annulled, except in arms, ammunition, gray cloth, and all articles from which ammunition is manufactured, locomotives, cars,