Meade, always prompt in obeying orders, now pushed forward with great energy, although he was himself sick and hardly able to be out of bed.

Humphreys moved at two, and Wright at three o'clock in the morning, without rations, as I have said, the wagons being far in the rear.
I stayed that night at Wilson's Station on the South Side Railroad.

On the morning of the 5th I sent word to Sheridan of the progress Meade was making, and suggested that he might now attack Lee.

We had now no other objective than the Confederate armies, and I was anxious to close the thing up at once.
On the 5th I marched again with Ord's command until within about ten miles of Burkesville, where I stopped to let his army pass.

I then received from Sheridan the following dispatch: "The whole of Lee's army is at or near Amelia Court House, and on this side of it.