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works as rapidly as possible. He then again rode towards the right, and about half an hour later while I was engaged in stationing my command and in giving instructions for reversing the works, a staff officer approached and informed me that the commander of the Second Corps wished to see me on the Jordan Point road some distance to the rear. I at once rode to near the intersection of the roadway from Baylor's farm with the Jordan Point road, and there found General Birney (or was it General Gibbons) in command of the Second Corps (General Hancock having, for some reason, remained behind); he said to me that he had been ordered to march the corps to the support of the troops that were operating against Petersburg, and I explained to him as briefly as I could what had been accomplished and the existing situation, and suggested that he move directly forward to the rear of my division, then deploy to the left in the open field and continue the occupation of the enemy's works in that d