GRANT'S HEADQUARTERS,
April 2, 1865.
Major-General MEADE:
The following just received:
Brigadier-General RAWLINS:
General Sheridan desired me to inform you that the Second
Corps is marching up the Boydton road toward Petersburg, and that Lee and his
forces are moving, this direction. We have come up to their rear guard, about
two miles on the Claiborne road from their works in front of that road
probably; but few stragglers.
P. T. HUDSON,
Aide-de-Camp.
11 A.M.
Miles has carried all the main works on the Claiburne road.
We are following the enemy up that road. The enemy evacuated the works about 10
o'clock. Will send particulars as soon as heard.
P. T. HUDSON,
Aide-de-Camp.
E. S. PARKER,
Lieutenant-Colonel
and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.
SOURCE: Arthur Caswell Parker, The Life of General
Ely S. Parker, p. 123; The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of
the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume
46, Part 3 (Serial No. 97), p. 457
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