HEADQUARTERS DEFENSES OF NEW ORLEANS,
New Orleans, January 25, 1865.

Brigadier-General CAMERON, Thibodeaux:

Your telegram of this a. m. is received. * The general hopes that Colonel Sayles will be able to catch some of the men who captured our party near Bayou Goula. The horses of the Third Rhode Island Cavalry were issued as serviceable horses. The general has never heard any material objection to them until recently. Have you received the dispatch marked confidential, sent up to-day.

FREDERICK SPEED,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF ARKANSAS,
Little Rock, January 25, 1865 - 3. 20 p. m.

(Received February 3.)

Major General N. J. T. DANA,

Commanding Department of Mississippi, Memphis:

Our expedition under Brigadier-General Carr left Pine Bluff to-day toward Camden.

J. J. REYNOLDS,

Major-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS SAINT LOUIS DISTRICT, Numbers 20.
Saint Louis, Mo., January 25, 1865.

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2. The garrison now at Hermann (except the post quartermaster) will march to Pilot Knob without delay and report to Colonel Beveridge, commanding Third Sub-District.

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By order of Brigadier-General Ewing:

H. HANNAHS,
Major Fiftieth Missouri Volunteers and Actg. Asst. Adjt. General

CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO., January 25, 1865.

Major H. HANNAHS,

Acting Assistant Adjutant-General:

Please answer regarding troops at Charleston immediately.

J. B. ROGERS,

Colonel.

HEADQUARTERS SAINT LOUIS DISTRICT,
Saint Louis, January 25, 1865.

Colonel ROGERS, Cape Girardeau:

The company at Charleston may remain until the expedition returns, when the changes proposed will be made. Lieutenant Davis started for his command yesterday.

By order of Brigadier-General Ewing:

H. HANNAHS,

Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

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* See p. 62.

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