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Petersburg, Va., 25th August, 1864.
Major-General George E. Pickett, Hancock's House:
You will please send at once the following dispatch by signal, via Dunn's House, to General Beauregard:

Have felt enemy in my front, and discovered force all prepared on my line.

Geo. E. Pickett, Major-General.

An answer will be sent you by signals, which will be unintelligible to you. Take no notice of it.

W. H. Taylor, A. A. G.

Petersburg, Va., 25th August, 1864.
Honorable Secretary of War, Richmond, Va..
General Early reports from Charleston that he has forced the enemy back to Harpers Ferry.


Petersburg, Va. 27th August, 1864.
Hon. Jas. A. Seddon, Secretary of War, Richmond, Va.:
General Archer is on duty with his brigade. Officers capable of duty cannot be spared. Generals H. H. Walker at Savannah, and A. L. Long at Lynchburg, at present incapacitated for field service, might be available for a court. General J. G. Martin with Holmes also.


My telegram of the 26th, asking that the militia on duty in Petersburg may be continued thirty days is unanswered. Their services are necessary. Please answer.


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