skirmishers from the v corps kept the confederates mostly in their white oak road line between the boydton plank road and claiborne road on march 30. despite incomplete information and somewhat vague and conflicting orders from meade and grant, on grant's order, warren pushed the union v corps forward to strengthen his hold on a part of the boydton plank road. the v corps entrenched a line to cover that road from its intersection with dabney mill road south to gravelly run. in the afternoon, warren saw griffin's men take over confederate outposts but he also saw that any attempted movement further up the boydton plank road was covered by confederate artillery and fortifications.