GETTY'S STATION, March 5, 1864.

Major-General BUTLER:

A gun-boat in the Nansemond will be of great service.

C. A. HECKMAN,

Brigadier-General, Commanding.

GETTY'S STATION, March 5, 1864.

Major-General BUTLER:

If you can furnish me with a map of Suffolk and vicinity it will be of great service. Seven p. m. all quiet in front.

C. A. HECKMAN,

Brigadier-General, Commanding.

GETTY'S STATION, March 5, 1864.

Brigadier-General WILD:

All quiet in the District of Currituck in the direction of South Mills. The enemy are in Suffolk. My pickets and theirs are facing each other. All quiet.

C. A. HECKMAN,

Brigadier-General.

HDQRS. DEPT. OF VIRGINIA AND NORTH CAROLINA,
Fort Monroe, March 5, 1864

Major General JOHN J. PECK,

Commanding, New Berne, N. C.:

GENERAL: I send you inclosed all the information I have about the movements of the enemy. * I am preparing to meet them at Suffolk. If you are right about the 25,000 men in North Carolina the enemy must be not only ubiquitous but more numberous than the sands of the sea. Kilpatrick is just in from his raid, and he swears Pickett's division is at Bottom's Bridge. Heckma insists that it is in front of him, and you think it is in front of you, and he wrote me a letter a few days ago from Petersburg.

I have the honor to be very respectfully, your obedient servant,

B. F. BUTLER,

Major-General, Commanding.

HDQRS. ARMY AND DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA,
New Berne, N. C., March 5, 1864.

Major General B. F. BUTLER,

Commanding Dept. of North Carolina and Virginia:

GENERAL; Since my letter of yesterday two steamers have arrived from General Wessells and Roanoke but bring no reports or rumors of any raid north of the Albemarle. However, a raid on our principal line of communication between Virginia and North Carolina should be expected as a preliminary operation to a grand movement on

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