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Appendix to chapter XXXV.
Telegram.
Richmond, April 15th, 1864.Repair with least delay practicable to Weldon, N. C., where instructions will be sent to you.
Telegram.
Arrived this morning at 5.30. No instructions here. Please send them. In the mean time will give general direction to everything. Have not yet assumed command. Please send me a pocket-map of North Carolina. I have large ones. With Governor Vance's consent, will send slaves captured at Plymouth to Wilmington, to work on fortifications.
Telegram.
A staff-officer left here this morning to see and confer with you. Will send maps, if they can be procured. I suggest that all of Ransom's brigade remaining at Weldon join him immediately, and that part of Martin's be sent to hold Plymouth during Hoke's operations. Our movements should be rapid, so as to strike before the enemy can reinforce. The gunboat at Kinston is probably ready, and must get out soon, or will be caught by low-water and become useless for the whole season.
Telegram.
Orders were sent several days since assigning you to command of Department of North Carolina and Cape Fear. They include Virginia south of James and Appomattox rivers, and all of North Carolina east of the mountains. Will keep you posted in current reliable news.
Memoranda for General Bragg.
Weldon, N. C., April 23d, 1864.Supposing this Department was to form a part of my former Department, I brought with me, or ordered to report to me here (before leaving Charleston), without further reference to the War Department, the following officers, who, I hope, will be allowed to remain with me: Officers brought with me. Captains John M. Otey and Alb. Ferry, Assistant Adjutant-Generals. Officers ordered here. Colonel D. B. Harris, Engineer; Majors Henry Bryan and Giles B. Cook, Assistant Adjutant-Generals, as inspectors.