They all, therefore, fell captives into our hands.

This effort of Lee's cost him about four thousand men, and resulted in their killing, wounding and capturing about two thousand of ours.
After the recapture of the batteries taken by the Confederates, our troops made a charge and carried the enemy's intrenched picket line, which they strengthened and held.

This, in turn, gave us but a short distance to charge over when our attack came to be made a few days later.
The day that Gordon was making dispositions for this attack (24th of March) I issued my orders for the movement to commence on the 29th.
Ord, with three divisions of infantry and Mackenzie's cavalry, was to move in advance on the night of the 27th, from the north side of the James River and take his place on our extreme left, thirty miles away.
He left Weitzel with the rest of the Army of the James to hold Bermuda Hundred and the north of the James River.

The engineer brigade was to be left at City Point, and Parke's corps in the lines about Petersburg.
(*42) Ord was at his place promptly.

Humphreys and Warren were then on our extreme left with the 2d and 5th corps.