HEADQUARTERS ARMIES OF THE UNITED STATES,
Appomattox Court.
House, April 9, 1865.
General MEADE:
GENERAL: The Fifth
Corps of the Army of the Potomac and the Twenty-fourth Corps of the Army of the
James will remain here until the stipulations of the surrender of the C. S.
Army, known as the Army of Northern Virginia, entered into by General R. E. Lee
and the lieutenant-general commanding, have been carried into effect, and the
captured and surrendered public property has been secured. All the other forces
will be moved back to Burkeville, starting to-morrow, where they will go into
camp. The chief ordnance officer of the Army of the Potomac will collect and
take charge of all captured and surrendered ordnance and ordnance stores and
remove them to Burkeville. The acting chief quartermaster of the Army of the
James will collect and take charge of all the captured and surrendered
quartermaster's property and stores and remove them to Burkeville. You will
please give such orders to your troops and officers of the staff departments as
will secure the execution of the foregoing instructions. The troops going to
Burkeville will turn over to those remaining here all the subsistence stores
they may have save a bare sufficiency to take them back.
By command of
Lieutenant-General Grant:
E. S.
PARKER,
Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.
SOURCE: Arthur Caswell Parker, The Life of General
Ely S. Parker, p. 135; 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. 668
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