ordered Dorsey's (Maryland) cavalry from Gordonsville to Fitz Lee, and directed Mosby to collect his command south and protect country from Gordonsville west.

R. E. LEE,

General.

HEADQUARTERS,
March 27, 1865. (Received 8.20.)

Colonel J. S. MOSBY:

(Care Major Boyle.)

Collect your command and watch the country from front of Gordonsville to Blue Ridge and also Valley. Your command is all now in that section, and the general will rely on you to watch and protect the country. If any of your command is in Northern Neck call it to you.

W. H. TAYLOR,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

[MARCH 28, 1865.-For Lee to Breckinridge, making supplemental report of assault on Fort Stedman, &c., see Part I, p. 383.]

SPECIAL ORDERS, HEADQUARTERS ENGINEER CORPS, ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA, Numbers 11.
March 28, 1865.

I. Captain William A. Obenchain is hereby relieved from duty at these headquarters and is ordered to proceed to Lynchburg and take temporary charge of engineer operations at that point during the illness of Captain Mason.

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By command of Brigadier General W. H. Stevens:

J. M. H. HOWARD,
First Lieutenant and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS FIRST ARMY CORPS,

March 28, 1865.

General R. E. LEE,

Petersburg:

Enemy was reported crossing from this side on pontoon bridge last night, beginning at dark. Our scouts have not yet returned, and do not know what force it was.

J. LONGSTREET,

Lieutenant-General.

HEADQUARTERS FIRST ARMY CORPS,
March 28, 1865.

General R. E. LEE,

Commanding, &c.:

Scouts just in report that it was a supply train crossing the pontoon bridge last night. Nothing of Sheridan or Kautz.

J. LONGSTREET,

Lieutenant-General.