I found at Fortress Monroe a dispatch from General Halleck, professing great friendship, and inviting me to accept his hospitality at Richmond.

I answered by a cipher-dispatch that I had seen his dispatch to Mr.Stanton, of April 26th, embraced in the second bulletin, which I regarded as insulting, declined his hospitality, and added that I preferred we should not meet as I passed through Richmond.

I thence proceeded to City Point in the Russia, and on to Manchester, opposite Richmond, via Petersburg, by rail.

I found that both wings of the army had arrived from Raleigh, and were in camp in and around Manchester, whence I again telegraphed General Grant, an the 9th of May, for orders, and also reported my arrival to General Halleck by letter.

I found that General Halleck had ordered General Davis's corps (the Fourteenth) for review by himself.