CULPEPER, VA., April 22, 1864-11 a. m.

(Received 2.45 p. m.)

Major General H. W. HALLECK,

Chief of Staff:

Admiral Lee's dispatch to the Secretary of the Navy has been sent to me for my information. I do not know the situation of affairs in North Carolina well enough to give positive instructions, but it appears to me there is no use of our holding Washington or Plymouth. It would be better to have the forces necessary to garrison those two places added to General Butler's column of attack, which, if successful, will give back to us not only the coast, but probably most of the State. It may be that to evacuate now would compromise Union men who have shown their Unionism in full faith that the country would never be given up to the enemy. I wish you would inquire of General Butler if the two points above mentioned can be abandoned as well as not, and, if so, give the order.

U. S. GRANT,

Lieutenant-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPT. OF VA. AND N. C., Numbers 112.
Fort Monroe, Va., April 22, 1864.

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X. Brigadier General E. W. Hinks will assume the command of all the troops at Camp Hamilton.*

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By command of Major-General Butler:

R. S. DAVIS,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS TENTH ARMY CORPS, Numbers 3.
Gloucester Point, Va., April 22, 1864.

In obedience to instructions from Major General Q. A. Gillmore, the undersigned assumes temporary command of the Tenth Army Corps.

Captain Adrian Terry, U. S. Volunteers, is announced as assistant adjutant-general at these headquarters.

ALFRED H. TERRY,

Brigadier-General, Commanding.

HDQRS. DEPT. OF VIRGINIA AND NORTH CAROLINA,
Fort Monroe, April 22, 1864.

Brigadier General I. N. PALMER,

Commanding Dist. of North Carolina, New Berne, N. C.:

GENERAL: I have been informed of the disaster to the naval force. I have had no report either from General Peck or yourself of any land attack, nor that either of you had heard from Plymouth. I wonder at the delay. Your posts are all fully armed, garrisoned, communitioned, and provisioned, and I have but one instruction, and that is hold them at all hazards, as you know the military proposition

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* Paragraph XVII revokes paragraph VIII of Special Orders, Numbers 110. See p. 930.

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