Order

Gouverneur K. Warren to Daniel Ruggles, March 25, 1865

HEADQUARTERS FIFTH ARMY CORPS,

March 25, 1865—6.55 a.m. Colonel RUGGLES:

T have ordered the whole corps under arms, to move at once to Fort Dushane, leaving out my pickets and one brigade at the bridge at Hatcher’s Run. I can take the whole of this force to General Parke if circumstances make it necessary.

G. K. WARREN, Major-General of Volunteers.

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE Potomac,

Commanding Fifth Corps: General Wright is sending one division to Parke. How many troops do you send? GEO. D. RUGGLES,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

Maron 25, 1865—7.50 a. m. Colonel RUGGLES: ‘

General Crawford’s division is about moving toward General Parke. General Ayres will follow him closely. Until things develop more I think it best not to move General Griffin further than to the Wyatt house.

Respectfully,

G. K. WARREN,
. Major-General.
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE Potomac,
March 25, 1865—8.20 a. m.
COMMANDING OFFICER FIFTH CORPS:
General Parke directs that the Fifth Corps be halted and await further orders. A dispatch immediately following says let Griffin's division
be halted at Wyatt's house as General Warren suggests.
Editor's Notes
From: Operations in Northern Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, Pt. 1. Summary: Major General G.K. Warren orders the Fifth Army Corps to mobilize toward Fort Dushane and General Parke, coordinating troop movements during the final stages of the Civil War.
Sources
The War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 46, Part 1 View original source ↗