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APPOMATTOX COURTHOUSE, VA., April loth, 1865.

The bearer, Private T. W. WHITE, of Co. A, ijth Virginia Regiment of Infantry, a Paroled Prisoner of the Army of Northern Virginia, has permission to go to his home, and

there remain undisturbed.

D. B. BRIDGFORD,

Maj. and Prov. Mar., A. N. V.

Also, with like forms of parole :

Private A. Meyers, Co. B, i4th La. Reg't. N. Bell, Norfolk Light Artillery. A. Butts, Co. B, 39th Va. Cav. J. S. Lupton, Co. A, 39th Va. Cav. W. H. Cautzen, 2d Co. Washington Art'y. J. A. Denny, Co. A, 39th Va. Cav. M. M. Hite, Co. A, 39th Va. Cav. Joshua Thomas, Co. D, 39th Va. Cav. W. S. Ward, Co. A, 39 th Va. Cav.

D. W. Byrd, Co. D, 3d Batt. S. C. Inf'ry.

E. E. Smith, Co. K, 3d Reg't S. C. Inf'ry. [26]

Gary's Cavalry Brigade*

A. C. Haskell, Col. yth So. Ca. Cav'y, com'd'g brig. W. H. Mouldin, Quartermaster.

Adjutant and Inspector-General United States Army, Washington, D. C., being a copy of the original in his Department. A majority of the cavalry of the Army of Northern Virginia appear not to have been surrendered at Appomattox Courthouse. In a report of General Fitzhugh Lee, command- ing the cavalry, to General R. E. Lee, dated April 22, 1865, he states that Generals T. L. Rosser and T. T. Munford, commanding divisions, succeeded in cutting their way through the lines of the Federal Army, and " imme- diately made arrangements to continue the struggle," until the capitulation of General Johnston's army brought the convincing proof that a further resistance was useless. A printed order (No. 6), issued from near Lynch-
 * This document was obligingly furnished by General J C. Kelton, Acting