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HEADQUARTERS FIRST ARMY CORPS, March 21, 1865.Major General FITZ LEE,
Commanding Cavalry:In addition to your report of the advance of the enemy toward Old Church, General Gary advises me that General Payne's pickets report them to be crossing at Bottom's Bridge; force not known. General Longstreet wishes you to resist them all you can, in order to develop their strength and discover whether it is necessary to send infantry to the assistance of the cavalry.
Respectfully, your obedient servant,
O. LATROBE,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
HEADQUARTERS FIRST ARMY CORPS, March 21, 1865.Major General FITZ LEE,
Commanding Cavalry, North Side, Nine-Mile Road:Keep your scouts well out toward the White House, so as to obtain early information of any move of the enemy. Pickett's division will be reviewed at 2 p.m. to-day on the Williamsburg road, near the intermediate line. Come over to it.
O. LATROBE,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
HEADQUARTERS FIRST ARMY CORPS, March 21, 1865.General M. W. GARY,
Commanding, &c.:Your dispatch received. General Lee has been instructed to resist the enemy all he can, in order to discover their strength and whether it is necessary to send infantry to meet them.
Respectfully, your obedient servant,
O. LATROBE,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
SPECIAL ORDERS, HDQRS. ARTY., ARMY OF NORTHERN VA., No. 13. March 22, 1865.
1. Dickenson's and Walker's batteries, of Owen's battalion, are hereby relieved from their connection with that organization and assigned to another battalion, consisting of these two and Douthat's, to be commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel King. These two batteries will prepare at once to move, under charge of Captain Dickenson, to the headquarters of General Alexander, commanding artillery on the north side of the James River, and report to him for orders. Captain Walker will adjust the assessment buisiness on which he has been engaged and then proceed to join his command and assume its direction until Lieutenant-Colonel King shall arrive.
2. The armament, horses, and equipment of these two batteries will for the present be turned over to Lieutenant Colonel C. M. Braxton, who will
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