on march 30, a day of steady torrential rain, the union forces consolidated their positions while lee completed his orders for major general george pickett together with cavalry help from major general fitzhugh lee to form a mobile task force to move from the end of the confederate line near hatcher's run to five forks. with the gap between the end of the confederate white oak road line southwest of petersburg and pickett's force at five forks in mind, on march 30, lee made additional deployments to strengthen his right flank. lee would have moved men from lieutenant general james longstreet's force north of the james river but largely due to demonstrations and deceptions by the remaining divisions of major general godfrey weitzel's xxv corps (twenty-fifth corps), longstreet thought that he still confronted ord's entire army of the james almost three days after ord had gone with two divisions of the xxiv corps, a division of the xxv corps and mackenzie's cavalry to the union lines south of petersburg.