A. Lincoln.

Telegram to secretary Seward. 
City point, Va., April, 1865. 5.30 ?.M.

Hon.  W. H. Seward, Secretary of State, Fort Monroe: 

Despatch just received, showing that Sheridan, aided by Warren, had, at 2 P.M., pushed the enemy back, so as to retake the Five Forks and bring his own headquarters up to J. Boisseau’s.  The Five Forks were barricaded by the enemy and carried by Devin’s division of cavalry.  This part of the enemy seem to now be trying to work along the White Oak road, to join the main force in front of Grant, while Sheridan and Warren are pressing them as closely as possible.

A. Lincoln.

Telegram to general U.S.  Grant. 
City point, April 1, 1865.

Lieutenant-general grant: 

Yours showing Sheridan’s success of to-day is just received and highly appreciated.  Having no great deal to do here, I am still sending the substance of your despatches to the Secretary of War.

A. Lincoln.

TELEGRAM TO MRS. LINCOLN.  CITY POINT, VA., April 2, 1865. 8.30 A.M. (Received 9 A.M.)

Mrs. A. Lincoln, Executive Mansion: 

Last night General Grant telegraphed that General Sheridan with his cavalry and the Fifth Corps had captured three brigades of infantry, a train of wagons, and several batteries, prisoners amounting to several thousand.  This morning General Grant having ordered an attack along the whole line telegraphs as follows.

Robert yesterday wrote a little cheerful note to Captain Penrose, which is all he has heard of him since you left.

A. Lincoln.

Telegrams to secretary Stanton. 
City point, Virginia, April 2, 1865. 8.30 A.M.

Hon.  E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War: 

Last night General Grant telegraphed that General Sheridan, with his cavalry and the Fifth Corps, had captured three brigades of infantry, a train of wagons, and several batteries; the prisoners amounting to several thousand.

This morning General Grant, having ordered an attack along the whole line, telegraphs as follows: 

“Both Wright and Parke got through the enemy’s lines.  The battle now rages furiously.  General Sheridan, with his cavalry, the Fifth corps, and Miles’s Division of the Second Corps, which was sent to him this morning, is now sweeping down from the west.

“All now looks highly favorable.  General Ord is engaged, but I have not yet heard the result in his front.”

A. Lincoln.

City point, April 1. 11.00 A.M.

Despatches are frequently coming in.  All is going on finely.  Generals Parke, Wright, and Ord’s lines are extending from the Appomattox to Hatcher’s Run.  They have all broken through the enemy’s intrenched lines, taking some forts, guns, and prisoners.  Sheridan, with his own cavalry, the Fifth Corps, and part of the Second, is coming in from the west on the enemy’s flank.  Wright is already tearing up the Southside Railroad.