MARCH 24, 1865.

Major General FITZ LEE,

Commanding, &c.:

Have you sent orders to Rosser about keeping himself between the enemy and Richmond? If not, do so.

O. LATROBE,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS FIRST ARMY CORPS, March 24, 1865.

Brigadier General M. W. GARY,
Commanding Cavalry:

General Longstreet wishes you to put a force of 100 of your dismounted men, in addition to the usual mounted picket, at the crossing of the North Fork and White Oak Swamp. They will intrench themselves and prepare to hold the crossing. They will also destroy the poles on the crossing. General Steuart has been ordered to place a regiment on picket at Mrs. Hobson's and to fortify. This will not relieve your cavalry at that point, which will continue there as usual. Captain Sims tells me that you know the crossing of the North Fork as Long Waters.

Respectfully, your obedient servant,

O. LATROBE,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS FIRST ARMY CORPS, March 24, 1865.

Brigadier General M. W. GARY,
Commanding Cavalry:

You need not send the dismounted force to the crossing of the North Fork of White Oak Swamp, as ordered this morning.

Respectfully, your obedient servant,

O. LATROBE,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

MARCH 24, 1865.

Brigadier-General GARY,

Vaughan's House:

Send out scouts to discover whether the Twenty-fourth Corps is in our front.

O. LATROBE,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

[MARCH 25, 1865.-For Lee to Breckinridge, reporting assault on Fort Stedman, &c., see Part I, p.382.]

RICHMOND, VA., March 25, 1865.

His Excellency WILLIAM SMITH,

Governor of Virginia:

GOVERNOR: Herewith I transmit the requisition made by General Lee in accordance with the suggestion I lately received from you.* He

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*See Lee to Davis, March 24, p. 1339.

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