Should by Lee’s right flank be our route, you will want to make arrangements for having supplies of all sorts promptly forwarded to White House on the Pamunkey.  Your estimates for this contingency should be made at once.  If not wanted there, there is every probability they will be wanted on the James River or elsewhere.

If Lee’s left is turned, large provision will have to be made for ordnance stores.  I would say not much short of five hundred rounds of infantry ammunition would do.  By the other, half the amount would be sufficient.

U. S. GRANT,

Lieutenant-General.

(26) General John A. Logan, upon whom devolved the command of the Army of the Tennessee during this battle, in his report gave our total loss in killed, wounded and missing at 3,521; and estimated that of the enemy to be not less than 10,000:  and General G. M. Dodge, graphically describing to General Sherman the enemy’s attack, the full weight of which fell first upon and was broken by his depleted command, remarks:  “The disparity of forces can be seen from the fact that in the charge made by my two brigades under Fuller and Mersy they took 351 prisoners, representing forty-nine different regiments, eight brigades and three divisions; and brought back eight battle flags from the enemy.”

(27) UNION ARMY ON THE RAPIDAN, MAY 5, 1864.

[COMPILED.]

LIEUTENANT-GENERAL U. S. GRANT, Commander-in-Chief.

MAJOR-GENERAL GEORGE G. MEADE, Commanding Army of the Potomac.

MAJ.-GEN.  W. S. HANCOCK, commanding Second Army Corps.

     First Division, Brig.-Gen. Francis C. Barlow. 
          First Brigade, Col.  Nelson A. Miles. 
          Second Brigade, Col.  Thomas A. Smyth. 
          Third Brigade, Col.  Paul Frank. 
          Fourth Brigade, Col.  John R. Brooke.

     Second Division, Brig.-Gen. John Gibbon. 
          First Brigade, Brig.-Gen. Alex.  S. Webb. 
          Second Brigade, Brig.-Gen. Joshua T. Owen. 
          Third Brigade, Col.  Samuel S. Carroll.

     Third Division, Maj.-Gen. David B. Birney. 
          First Brigade, Brig.-Gen. J. H. H. Ward. 
          Second Brigade, Brig.-Gen. Alexander Hays.

     Fourth Divisin, Brig.-Gen. Gershom Mott. 
          First Brigade, Col.  Robert McAllister. 
          Second Brigade, Col.  Wm. R. Brewster.

          Artillery Brigade, Col.  John C. Tidball.

MAJ.-GEN.  G. K. WARREN, commanding Fifth Army Corps.

     First Division, Brig.-Gen. Charles Griffin. 
          First Brigade, Brig.-Gen. Romeyn B. Ayres. 
          Second Brigade, Col.  Jacob B. Sweitzer. 
          Third Brigade, Brig.-Gen. J. J. Bartlett.

     Second Division, Brig.-Gen. John C. Robinson. 
          First Brigade, Col.  Samuel H. Leonard. 
          Second Brigade, Brig.-Gen. Henry Baxter. 
          Third Brigade, Col.  Andrew W. Denison.