Chas. B. Penrose to James D. Fessenden, March 23, 1865

General J. D. FESSENDEN, Commanding Post:

The major-general commanding directs that you send a regiment of infantry to-morrow morning, with two days’ rations, to Berry’s Ferry, to return by way of White Post, with instructions similar to those given the regiments you have previously sent out. If you will send word at what hour the regiment moves and the name of the regiment a few cavalrymen will be ordered to report to the commanding officer as orderlies. At Berry’s Ferry the regiment may possibly communicate with or hear from an expedition which went through Loudoun County to Ashby’s Gap to-day.

C. H. MORGAN, Brevet Brigadier-General and Chief of Staff.

NEw ‘YorK, March 23, 1865.

Hon. E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War:

If I can be of any service to General Grant or General Sherman as a subordinate commander or aide-de-camp, or as a bearer of dispatches from you to either of them, I am quite ready. I avail myself of the telegraph to save time.

A. E. BURNSIDE, Fifth Avenue Hotel.

Fort Monrokg, March 24, 1865.

. (Received 12.30 p. m.) Hon. E. M. STANTON:

The President desires me to say he has just arrived at this point safely, and is now feeling well, having had a pretty fair passage. Your telegram he received.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,