Monday, May 9th.
It is reported this morning that General Butler has taken City Point and Petersburg, and that General Longstreet’s corps has gone to Richmond, but we have learned to put very little faith in rumors. At half-past six P. M. heavy cannonading is heard in front. At two o’clock Headquarters are moved back to the Chancellorsville and Fredericksburg plank road, and we are marched back two-and a-half miles. It is reported that General Sedgwick, commanding the Sixth Corps, is killed.
