1865: A telegram from Lieutenant G. G. Curtiss, Baton Rouge, of this date, reports the arrival of H. H. McNabb, scout, at that place from the enemy's lines. States that Johnston is in command of Hood's army, which has been largely re-enforced from the Trans-Mississippi Department.

I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

S. M. EATON,

Captain and Chief Signal Officer, Mil. Div. of West Mississippi.

By MYRON ADAMS, Jr.,

Second Lieutenant, Signal Corps, U. S. Army.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
WAR DEPT., ADJT. GENERAL'S OFFICE, No. 59.
Washington, February 6, 1865.

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40. The telegraphic order of the 4th instant from this Department suspending the order directing Major-General Washburn, U. S. Volunteers, and ordering him to remain where his until further instructions from Lieutenant-General Grant, is hereby confirmed.

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By order of the Secretary of War:

E. D. TOWNSEND,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

HDQRS. MILITARY DIVISION OF WEST MISSISSIPPI, New Orleans, La., February 6, 1865.

Major General F. STEELE,

Kenner, La.:

Two sea-going steamers will be sent up this afternoon and another to-morrow to take the brigade, viz, Twenty-ninth Illinois, Thirtieth Missouri, and One hundred and sixty-first New York. If there is any surplus room after these have embarked the Twenty-third Iowa and the Seventy-sixth Illinois will be sent by these steamers.

By order:

C. T. CHRISTENSEN,

Lieutenant-Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS U. S. FORCES, Kenner, La., February 6, 1865.

Colonel LOREN KENT,

Twenty-ninth Illinois Infantry, Commanding Third Brigade:

COLONEL: I am directed by the commanding general to say that two sea-going vessels will be up from New Orleans this afternoon to take the Third Brigade to Mobile Point, Ala. You will embark your command as compactly as possible, taking all your transportation and the transportation left by General Lawler's brigade. Another sea-going vessel will come up to-morrow. If there should be any surplus room on these three steamers the Twenty-third Iowa and Seventy-sixth Illinois will accompany you. Should they prove insufficient to carry the Third Brigade, Lawler's transportation, and the two latter-named regiments,

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