If you can possibly do so, push on from where you are, and let us see if we cannot finish the job with Lee's and Johnston's armies.
Whether it will be better for you to strike for Greensboro' or nearer to Danville, you will be better able to judge when you receive this.

Rebel armies now are the only strategic points to strike at.
U.S.GRANT, Lieutenant-General.
I answered immediately that we would move on the 10th, prepared to follow Johnston wherever he might go.

Promptly on Monday morning, April 10th, the army moved straight on Smithfield; the right wing making a circuit by the right, and the left wing, supported by the centre, moving on the two direct roads toward Raleigh, distant fifty miles.

General Terry's and General Kilpatrick's troops moved from their positions on the south or west bank of the Neuse River in the same general direction, by Cox's Bridge.

On the 11th we reached Smithfield, and found it abandoned by Johnston's army, which had retreated hastily on Raleigh, burning the bridges.