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marched to the court-house next day, but found difficulty in getting cars enough to transport my division.
Rodes was first sent off, then Kershaw, and my own brigade was finally put on board on the 7th.
Going with the rear of this last brigade, I reached Richmond on the morning of the 8th of April, after much delay on the road, and found that Rodes and Kershaw had been sent to General Magruder on the Peninsula, to which point I was also ordered with my own brigade, part going by the way of York River, and the rest by the way of James River in vessels towed by tugs.
My trains and artillery moved by land from Orange CourtHouse.
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