Should you select the latter course, get the information to me as early as possible, so that I may send orders to meet you at Goldsboro'.
"U.

S.GRANT, Lieutenant-General.
"MAJOR-GENERAL P.H.SHERIDAN." On the morning of the 29th the movement commenced.

At night the cavalry was at Dinwiddie Court House, and the left of our infantry line extended to the Quaker Road, near its intersection with the Boydton Plank Road.
The position of the troops from left to right was as follows: Sheridan, Warren, Humphreys, Ord, Wright, Parke.
Everything looked favorable to the defeat of the enemy and the capture of Petersburg and Richmond, if the proper effort was made.

I therefore addressed the following communication to General Sheridan, having previously informed him verbally not to cut loose for the raid contemplated in his orders until he received notice from me to do so: "GRAVELLY CREEK, March 29, 1865.
"GENERAL:--Our line is now unbroken from the Appomattox to Dinwiddie.
We are all ready, however, to give up all, from the Jerusalem Plank Road to Hatcher's Run, whenever the forces can be used advantageously.

After getting into line south of Hatcher's, we pushed forward to find the enemy's position.