We will act all together as one army here, until it is seen what can be done with the enemy.

The signal-officer at Cobb's Hill reported, at half-past eleven A.M., that a cavalry column had passed that point from Richmond towards Petersburg, taking forty minutes to pass.
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S.GRANT, Lieutenant-General.
"MAJOR-GENERAL P.H.SHERIDAN." From the night of the 29th to the morning of the 31st the rain fell in such torrents as to make it impossible to move a wheeled vehicle, except as corduroy roads were laid in front of them.

During the 30th, Sheridan advanced from Dinwiddie Court House towards Five Forks, where he found the enemy in full force.

General Warren advanced and extended his line across the Boydton Plank Road to near the White Oak Road, with a view of getting across the latter; but, finding the enemy strong in his front and extending beyond his left, was directed to hold on where he was, and fortify.