supply train. Brig. Gen. W. W. Belknap will detail one strong regiment for rear guard. Same order of march will be observed unless otherwise directed, except the brigades will alternate. By order of Bvt. Maj. Gen. Giles A. Smith: AD. WARE, JR., Assistant Adjutant-General. HDQRS. MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI, In the Field, Goldsborough, N. C., April 9, 1865. Major-General SLOCUM, Commanding Left Wing, Army of Georgia: GENERAL: I send your report, with inclosures, to Washington to-day. I have read carefully yours, Davis', and Williams', and regret I have not time to critically examine all of the reports of your division and brigade commanders. I do not find a specific list of names recom mended for brevet or promotion. You ought to make a fair selection, for it is impracticable that I should do this from the record, nor can General Halleck or the Secretary of War. I will cheerfully indorse any specific recommendations you may make, and they had better be made now, as we may not have another chance soon. In order that you may be satisfied I extract from my letter of to-day to General Halleck, and authorize you to communicate the same to the parties interested." Some of your colonels deserve promotion, say Selfridge, and others. Please give me their names and credentials to day if possible. Yours, truly, W. T. SHERMAN, Major General, Commanding. GENERAL ORDERS, HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF GEORGIA, No. Goldsborough, N. C., April 9, 1865. The following-named officer is announced on the staff of the major general-commanding: Capt. R. M. McDowell, One hundred and fortyfirst New York Volunteers, chief topographical engineer. By command of Maj. Gen. H. W. Slocum: ROBT. P. DECHERT, Major and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General. Major DECHERT, HEADQUARTERS FOURTEENTH ARMY CORPS, Chief of Staff: Goldsborough, N. C., April 9, 1865. MAJOR: The difficulty of getting artillery horses is very great in this army, certainly in my corps. Now passing my headquarters are many ambulances of the Nineteenth and Twenty-third Corps drawn by excellent artillery horses. Cannot some arrangement be made to get them? All my ambulances are drawn by mules. Please lay this communication before the general commanding for his information. I am, major, very respectfully, your obedient servant, JEF. C. DAVIS, Brevet Major-General, Commanding. [First indorsement.] HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF GEORGIA, Respectfully forwarded for the information of the general-in-chief. [Second indorsement.] HDQRS. MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI, It is now too late to disturb this matter. General Schofield has been looking for two weeks to get horses and has failed. He, too, will need horses for his artillery. SPECIAL FIELD ORDERS,} W. T. SHERMAN, Major-General, Commanding. HDQRS. 14TH ARMY CORPS, Goldsborough, N. C., April 9, 1865. The corps will move to-morrow toward Smithfield in the following order: The division supply trains under Captain Remington, chief quartermaster of the corps; the reserve artillery and ammunition trains under Major Houghtaling, chief of artillery, and the pontoniers under Lieutenant-Colonel Moore, will be reported to Brig. Gen. C. C. Walcutt, commanding First Division, and will move under his directions until further orders, his division constituting the train guard. General Morgan, with headquarters, regimental, ambulance, aud ammunition trains only, will march at 5 a. m. on the Raleigh road, crossing the bridge over Little River in his own front, and will keep a road leading near the North Carolina Railroad in the direction of Boon Hill, leaving the main river road to Smithfield for the Twentieth Corps. General Baird, with same transportation as above, will follow General Morgan. General Walcutt will move his command in the rear of General Baird, keeping the pontoon train in advance of the other trains. Corps headquarters will move with General Baird's division. By order of Bvt. Maj. Gen. J. C. Davis: ORDERS.] A. C. MCCLURG, Lieutenant-Colonel and Chief of Staff. HDQRS. THIRD DIV., TWENTIETH ARMY CORPS, Near Goldsborough, N. C., April 9, 1865. Pursuant to orders, this command will be in readiness to march at daybreak to-morrow, the 10th instant, in following order: Third Brigade, First Brigade, battery, trains, Second Brigade, which will cover train that moves with division, i. e., ambulances, tool wagons, and ten ammunition wagons. Colonel Dustin will detail one regiment as rear guard and one to accompany the trains of the division which follows those of the Second Division in rear of Fourteenth Corps trains. By command of Bvt. Maj. Gen. W. T. Ward: ROBT. E. BEECHER, Captain and Assistant Adjutant-General. 10 R R-VOL XLVII, PT III Maj. L. M. DAYTON: MOUNT OLIVE, April 9, 1865. Will the general be at home this evening? Am coming up on the train to see him. I am now in telegraph office awaiting your orders. KILPATRICK. GOLDSBOROUGH, April 9, 1865. Maj. WILLIAM M. WHERRY, Chief of Staff: I have the honor to report that the telegraph operator at Burgaw Station was captured last evening and the wire cut by the rebels. Very respectfully, JOHN E. O'BRIEN. HEADQUARTERS TWENTY-THIRD ARMY CORPS, Major-General COUCH, Commanding Second Division, Twenty-third Army Corps: GENERAL: I am directed by the major-general commanding to say that he expects to have Brevet Brigadier-General Blackman ordered to report to him for assignment to duty in this corps with his brevet rank. The commanding general has had some previous acquaintance with General Blackman and believes him to be a good and reliable officer. If you desire it General Blackman will be assigned to your division; if not, he will probably be assigned to the Third Division. I am, general, very respectfully, your obedient servant, THEO. COX, Major and Assistant Adjutant-General. HDQRS. THIRD DIVISION, TWENTY-THIRD ARMY CORPS, Goldsborough, April 9, 1865. BRIGADE AND BATTERY COMMANDERS: H. H. THOMAS, Assistant Adjutant-General. Maj. Gen. A. H. TERRY, Faison's: GOLDSBOROUGH, April 9, 1865. The commanding general directs that you relieve all of General Kilpatrick's men and order them to join their commands as soon as the squadron of Twelfth New York Cavalry report to you. J. A. CAMPBELL, Lieutenant-Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General. HDQRS. DEPT. OF NORTH CAROLINA, ARMY OF THE OHIO, Goldsborough, April 9, 1865. Don't let your sick delay your movement. If necessary leave a detachment with them, with orders to follow and join you as soon as the sick are started off. It is desirable that you start promptly, early in the morning. By order of Major-General Schofield: J. A. CAMPBELL, Lieutenant-Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General. FAISON'S STATION, April 9, 1865. Col. J. A. CAMPBELL: Your dispatch is received. I have to start to-morrow morning, but may not be able to get away quite so early. Don't think the delay in sending off the sick will delay my movements. A. H. TERRY, Major-General. Brig. Gen. E. HARLAND, Kinston: GOLDSBOROUGH, N. C., April 9, 1865. The One hundred and twenty-eighth and One hundred and seventyfifth New York will report to General Birge and come here with him. J. A. CAMPBELL, Lieutenant-Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General. GOLDSBOROUGH, April 9, 1865. Brig. Gen. H. W. BIRGE, New Berne: Bring the Twenty-second Indiana Battery with you to Goldsborough. You had better have a small regiment come with it as guard. By order of Major-General Schofield: J. A. CAMPBELL, Lieutenant-Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General. NEW BERNE, April 9, 1865. Brigadier-General HARLAND, Kinston: The Twenty-second Indiana Battery will march from here to Goldsborough. Upon their arrival at Kinston please order the One hundred and seventy-fifth New York Volunteers, Captain McCarthey, to join them and march with them to Goldsborougli. Also please order the One hundred and twenty-eighth New York Volunteers to proceed by first train to Goldsborough and report to Col. N. W. Day. H. W. BIRGE, Brevet Major-General BIRGE, New Berne: KINSTON, N. C., April 9, 1865. I have telegraphed to General Schofield, but can get no reply. I cannot let these two regiments go without an order from him. E. HARLAND, Brigadier-General. Brig. Gen. H. W. BIRGE, New Berne, N. C.: KINSTON, N. C., April 9, 1865. As it is impossible for the One hundred and twenty-eighth and One hundred and seventy-fifth Regiments New York Volunteers to proceed to Goldsborough on this morning's train (it having already arrived), shall they be ordered to proceed then by the next train; and if so, who shall they be directed to report to on their arrival there? E. HARLAND, Brevet Major-General BIRGE, New Berne: KINSTON, N. C., April 9, 1865. I have heard from General Schofield. I will order the One hundred and twenty-eighth and the One hundred and seventy-fifth to be ready. E. HARLAND, Brigadier-General. HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE SOUTH, Maj. Gen. W. T. SHERMAN, Hilton Head, S. C., April 9, 1865. Comdg. Mil. Div. of the Miss., Goldsborough, N. C.: GENERAL: Your letter of the 6th, by the hands of Lieutenant Snow, was received last night about 12 o'clock, containing the glorious news of the capture of Richmond and Petersburg, and the full retreat of Lee's army. I most heartily congratulate both yourself and the lieutenant-general on the prospect of having, at an early day, the great insurgent army where you can hope to be able to put the finishing blow to its career. With regard to affairs in this quarter, I am most anxious to carry out all your plans, and have no reason to doubt that I shall be able to do so. Indeed, nothing but the most explicit orders could have forced me to remain quiet, seeing as I did an opportunity to accomplish so much with trifling expenditure of means. Such orders, however, I did receive from the headquarters of the army, and they were not only given in very plain terms, but were reiterated. What I wanted and asked for, and still want, is a small mounted force of, say, 1,000 men; but I could not get them. With such a force, if I had it now, I could reach any point in South Carolina and Georgia within 130 miles of the coast, keeping the entire railroad system in these parts in a useless condition. The expedition which you ordered is, I trust, now well ou its way. Its starting was delayed some days by a number of coincident causes; but I gave Brigadier-General Potter, its commander, his final instructions on the 4th instant at Georgetown, and he expected to start |