HEADQUARTERS FIRST DIVISION, SIXTH CORPS,
Burkeville, Va., May 6, 1865.

Major-General WRIGHT,

Danville:

Arrived here at 6 o'clock evening. The First Brigade will march to Sutherland's Station. My headquarters will be at this place for the present. If there is no objection will go to Boydton to-morrow.

F. WHEATON,

Brevet Major-General, U. S. Volunteers.

HEADQUARTERS FIRST DIVISION, SIXTH CORPS,
Burkeville, Va., May 6, 1865.

General W. H. PENROSE,

Commanding First Brigade, Sutherland's Station:

Your brigade been ordered under Colonel Gilkyson to march at 6 o'clock to-morrow morning. Ambulances and train will accompany it.

GEORGE CLENDENIN, JR.,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

[MAY 6, 1865.-For General Orders, No. 54, Department of Virginia, relating to Bvt. Brigadier General Henry L. Abbot and the Siege Artillery Train, etc., see Part I, p.665.]

HEADQUARTERS ARMIES OF THE UNITED STATES,
Washington, May 6, 1865.

Major General G. K. WARREN:

GENERAL: Your note requesting authority to publish your application for an investigation of the grounds upon which you were relieved from the command of the Fifth Army Corps, or to have the investigation, is received. It is impossible at this time to give the court and witnesses necessary for the investigation, but I see nothing in your application which I see objectionable to have published.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

U. S. GRANT,

Lieutenant-General.

HEADQUARTERS MIDDLE MILITARY DIVISION,
May 6, 1865.

Major General C. C. AUGUR,

Commanding Department of Washington:

GENERAL: Major General Hancock directs me to inform you that he saw General Grant to-day with reference to the return to Alexandria of paroled prisoners of General Lee's army. General Grant decides that under the terms of the capitulation all soldiers surrendered by General Lee, or under the terms granted by General Grant, have a right to return to their homes at Alexandria, or elsewhere in Virginia, and to remain there as long as they respect their paroles and the laws in force where they reside.

C. H. MORGAN,

Brigadier-General and Chief of Staff.