additional orders and messages passed among warren, grant, meade and sheridan that night although the full information was shared by none. at 8:45 p.m., grant directed meade to send a division from the v corps to sheridan's aid. orders were changed, including whether bartlett should be recalled to join with the rest of griffin's division. warren's corps was without pontoons because they had been used at rowanty creek and the quaker road crossing of gravelly run so when his entire corps had to move west it was delayed by the need to bridge the boydton plank road crossing of gravelly run, which warren was advised was completed at 2:05 a.m. meade did not tell grant that the plan to move warren's entire corps to sheridan's aid and to cover the boydton plank road line with only the ii corps was warren's idea. when grant notified sheridan that the v corps and ranald mackenzie's cavalry had been ordered to his support, he gratuitously and without any basis said that warren should reach him "by 12 tonight," an impossibility under the circumstances. ayres's division arrived at sheridan's position at dawn. the confederates had retreated so ayres's men rested until 2:00 p.m.