SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. ARMY OF THE NORTHERN VIRGINIA, Numbers 61.
Orange Court-House, March 3, 1864.

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VI. Brigadier General N. H. Harris, Provisional Army, C. S., will report to Lieutenant General A. P. Hill, commanding Third Corps, Army of Northern Virginia, for assignment to the command of the brigade of Anderson's division formerly commanded by Brigadier-General Posey.

By command of General R. E. Lee:

W. H. TAYLOR,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

PETERSBURG, VA., March 3, 1864.

General S. COOPER,

Adjutant and Inspector General:

I have ordered the cavalry companies which were to assemble at High Bridge to go to Richmond at once. Will you let me know immediately whether the danger in that neighborhood has passed? I want the City Battalion returned. There are no troops here. Two regiments of Clingman's (number 1,400 muskets - more than Kemper's whole brigade) are now leaving here; that leaves this place entirely unguarded. Answer.

G. E. PICKETT,

Major-General.

PETERSBURG, March 3, 1864.

General S. COOPER,

Adjutant and Inspector General:

Your dispatch received. I have only twenty field pieces here, and horses enough to move seven pieces and men enough to fight the twenty. Shall I send them all?

G. E. PICKETT,

Major-General.

RICHMOND, March 3, 1864.

General PICKETT:

Send only the pieces for which you have horses, particularly the Napoleons and rifles.

PETERSBURG, March 3, 1864.

General S. COOPER,

Adjutant and Inspector General:

Have answered all your telegrams, but up this hour, 3 p. m., have not been notified of the receipt of any of them nor any reply to my question as to whether the danger at High Bridge has passed. Answer.

G. E. PICKETT,

Major-General, Commanding.