order requires twenty shots in all to be fired each hour; that is, not for each piece, but for all the pieces together.

By order:

C. T. CHRISTENSEN,

Lieutenant-Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS THIRTEENTH ARMY CORPS,
April 4, 1865.

Lieutenant-General CHRISTENSEN:

The order has been carefully given.

G. GRANGER,

Major-General, Commanding Thirteenth Army Corps.

HEADQUARTERS THIRTEENTH ARMY CORPS,
April 4, 1865.

Major-General CANBY:

Our firing this evening was excellent. One magazine in the fort was exploded, throwing several men high in the air. We failed to silence the enemy's water battery, which shelled us with great fury. I am closing my trenches near the fort to-night, and to-morrow night will be upon the slope of the fort.

G. GRANGER,

Major-General, Commanding.

HEADQUARTERS THIRTEENTH ARMY CORPS,
April 4, 1865.

Captain MACK,

Eighteenth New York Battery:

CAPTAIN: I send you a detail to extend your right so as to complete six embrasures. You will add temporary platforms to correspond with the embrasures, so as to enable your guns to be used to the front and flank as circumstances may require.

Yours, respectfully,

G. GRANGER,

Major-General, Commanding.

HEADQUARTERS U. S. FORCES, &C.,
Before Blakely, Ala., April 4, 1865.

Brigadier General J. C. VEATCH,

Commanding Veatch's Division:

GENERAL: I am instructed by Major-General Steele to say that in pursuance of instructions received from General Canby, you will cause one of your brigades to move forward on the line of investment between Andrews' and Garrard's divisions. They will send forward their skirmishers and intrench themselves during the night. Any entrenching tools that they may need can be obtained at these headquarters and sent forward to them.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

JOHN F. LACEY,

Captain and Assistant Adjutant-General.