E.D. Townsend to Provost-Marshal-General, March 25, 1865
March 25, 1865. Brigadier-General PATRICK, Provost-Marshal-General, Armies operating against Richmond, City Point: GENERAL: Continual arrivals of prisoners have swelled the number forwarded to you this p. m. to 2,571. At12 to-night I send you 440 prisoners of war. GEO. N. MACY,
SPECIAL ORDERS,{ WAR Dept., ADJT. GENERAL’S OFFICE, No. 145. Washington, March 25, 1865. * * * * * * *
38. Capt. L. B. Nortou, Signal Corps, U. 8. Army, is hereby relieved from duty in the Department of Virginia, and will report to the chief signal officer, U. S. Army, at Washington, D. C., to be assigned to the position held at present by Capt. J oseph H. Spencer, Signal Corps, U. S. Army.
40. Bvt. Maj. J.C. Paine, Signal Corps, U.S. Army, is hereby relieved from duty in the Army of the Potomac, and will report to Major-General Ord, commanding the Department of Virginia, to assume charge of the signal detachment connected with that department.
By order of the Secretary of War:
Assistant Adjutant-General,
118 'N. AND S. E. V. A., W. V. A., M. D., AND P. A. (Cnar. LVI.
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE Potomac,
General WEBB:
The Walthall house station reports at 3 p. m. a column of about
1,000 men moving out of Petersburg on a road running westerly. Column moving westerly. This probably the same as the last column