HEADQUARTERS FIFTH ARMY CORPS,
August 19, 1864.

Brigadier-General WHITE,

Commanding Division:

GENERAL: Major-General Warren directs me to say that you will bring your command to this point by the most direct route, and camp for the present near General Willcox, whose location will be pointed out to you on your arrival.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

FRED. T. LOCKE,

Lieutenant-Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS FIFTH ARMY CORPS,
August 19, 1864 - 3.45 p. m.

Brigadier-General WILLCOX,

Commanding Division:

GENERAL: Major-General Warren directs me to inform you that the enemy are reported moving down in force on General Ayres' front, also in front of Colonel Lyle. He desires you to have your command at once put in readiness to move to the front, and keep it so until dark.

I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

FRED. T. LOCKE,

Lieutenant-Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS FIFTH ARMY CORPS,
August 19, 1864. (Received 10 p. m.)

General PARKE:

The corps did finely to-day. General Warren compliments us highly. Hartranft and White stood the brunt of Mahone's division and captured some prisoners. Humphrey recaptured some works temporarily lost and captured 6 officers and 48 men. Potter got up just in time to save the road of communication.

O. B. WILLCOX,

Brigadier-General.

HDQRS. SECOND Brigadier, FOURTH DIV., NINTH ARMY CORPS,
Near Petersburg, Va., August 19, 1864 - 6.30 a. m.

Captain HICKS,

Asst. Adjt. General, Fourth Division, Ninth Army Corps:

CAPTAIN: I have the honor to make the following report: There was very heavy cannonading along our lines from 11.30 to near morning. Captain George D. Moore, Twenty-third U. S. Colored Troops, was shot dead by a sharpshooter, the ball passing through the lungs. There were two men wounded in the Twenty-third, one in the Nineteenth, and one in the Twenty-eighth.

I am, captain, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

H. G. THOMAS,

Colonel, Commanding Brigade.