... is necessary on your part that the enemy do not cross the Appomattox to overwhelm and drive back Parke. To the staff officer left in charge at City Point he said: Instruct Benham to get the men at City Point out to the outer lines, and have them ready. While all our forces are going in, some enterprising rebels may possibly go through down there, in a fit of desperation, to do what damage they can. W...