HEADQUARTERS SIXTH ARMY CORPS,
May 28, 1865.

Colonel GEORGE D. RUGGLES,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

The storm in this section has been most severe. With every exertion to get forward we have made but eight miles in two days and are now completely mud-bound, the roads being utterly impassable. I shall be compelled to remain here till they improve, and have set forward to Fredericksburg to have subsistence and forage collect to meet me at that point. There will be no unnecessary delay in pushing forward, but it is quite impossible to say when we shall reach Washington. I will telegraph again on reaching Fredericksburg. I think I have never experienced worse roads.

H. G. WRIGHT,

Major-General, Commanding.

ORDERS.] HEADQUARTERS SIXTH CORPS,

May 28, 1865.

The corps will resume its march to Fredericksburg, moving at 5 a. m. to-morrow, in the following order: First, Third Division; second, First Division; third, Second Division. Division and brigade headquarters trains will follow their respective divisions. The ambulances and supply trains will take the road leading to Bethany Church. One-half of the pioneers of each division will accompany the supply trains, reporting at 5 a. m. to the quartermasters of their respective divisions.

By command of Major-General Wright:

C. H. WHITELSEY,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

WASHINGTON CITY, May 28, 1865.

Major-General ORD,

Richmond, VA.:

You may authorize General Longstreet to visit Washington.

U. S. GRANT,

Lieutenant-General.

WASHINGTON, MAY 28, 1865-2.10 p. m.

Major-General WEITZEL:

Major General Giles A. Smith is ordered to report to you. Your movements are approved. General Steele will probably have left Mobile before your arrival. If you find instructions there obey them. If not, proceed immediately to the mouth of the Rio Grande and report to Steele there.

U. S. GRANT,

Lieutenant-General.

TWENTY-FIFTH ARMY CORPS,

May 28, 1865. (Received 10.25 p. m.)

Lieutenant-General GRANT:

Your dispatch is received.

G. WEITZEL,

Major-General.