CHAPTER LXIV.
INTERVIEW WITH SHERIDAN--GRAND MOVEMENT OF THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC -- SHERIDAN'S ADVANCE ON FIVE FORKS--BATTLE OF FIVE FORKS--PARKE AND WRIGHT STORM THE ENEMY'S LINE--BATTLES BEFORE PETERSBURG.
Sheridan reached City Point on the 26th day of March.

His horses, of course, were jaded and many of them had lost their shoes.

A few days of rest were necessary to recuperate the animals and also to have them shod and put in condition for moving.

Immediately on General Sheridan's arrival at City Point I prepared his instructions for the move which I had decided upon.

The movement was to commence on the 29th of the month.
After reading the instructions I had given him, Sheridan walked out of my tent, and I followed to have some conversation with him by himself -- not in the presence of anybody else, even of a member of my staff.