HEADQUARTERS CAVALRY DIVISION, Memphis, Tenn., June 16, 1864.

Colonel GEORGE E. WARING, Jr.,
Commanding First Brigade, White's Station:

By direction of General Washburn you will send 500 cavalry to the terminus of the railroad between Collierville and La Fayette. They will carry three days' rations. Two days' [forage] for 4,000 animals has been ordered sent to the terminus of the road.

By order of Brigadier-General Grierson:

S. L. WOODWARD,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HDQRS. CAVALRY DIVISION, SIXTEENTH ARMY CORPS, Memphis, Tenn., June 16, 1864.

Colonel T. P. HERRICK,
Commanding Seventh Kansas Cavalry:

COLONEL: You will proceed at daylight to-morrow morning with the effective mounted force of your command, with three days' rations and 100 rounds of ammunition, to the terminus of the Memphis and Charleston Railroad, between Collierville and La Fayette. You will send patrols upon the different roads from that point and telegraph any information to these headquarters. Forage will be furnished you at that point, where you will remain until further orders.

By order of Brigadier General B. H. Grierson:

S. L. WOODWARD,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

[JUNE 16, 1864. - For Grierson's congratulatory address, see Part I, p. 130.]

HDQRS. MILITARY DIVISION OF WEST MISSISSIPPI, New Orleans, June 16, 1864.

Major General H. W. SLOCUM,
Vicksburg, Miss.:

GENERAL: Two thousand infantry from the command at Vicksburg will be held in readiness for service in the field. This force will move by the river. All the disposable cavalry will be held in readiness for a rapid movement into the interior of the State. The movement will be made in concert with other operations, and the time, route, and object of the movement will be given in instructions from these headquarters.

By order of Major General E. R. S. Canby:

DE WITT CLINTON,

Captain and Aide-de-Camp, Actg. Asst. Adjt. General

NASHVILLE, TENN., June 17, 1864.

Major-General SHERMAN:

It may be you have reports of disaster to General Sturgis, at Guntown, but I telegraphed you to be sure you get what is said in the news papers and credited. They say Colonel Anthony, Sixty-sixth Indiana,