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855 Series I Volume XLVIII-I Serial 101 - Powder River Expedition Part I

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GENERAL ORDERS, HDQRS. NORTHERN DIV. OF LOUISIANA, Numbers 5.
Baton Rouge, La., February 15, 1865.

General Orders, Numbers 3, dated headquarters District of Baton Rouge and Port Hudson, Baton Rouge, La., February 2, 1865, is hereby revoked. Brigadier General Joseph Bailey, commanding District of Baton Rouge, will make such orders relative to the welfare and police of the city as he may deem proper and necessary.

By command of Major-General Herron:

WM. H. CLAPP,

Captain and Assistant Adjutant-General.

GENERAL ORDERS, HDQRS. NORTHERN DIV. OF LOUISIANA, Numbers 6.
Baton Rouge, La., February 15, 1865.

The present organization of the cavalry in this command is discontinued. The following-named regiments, together with the First Wisconsin Battery, will constitute what will hereafter be known as the Cavalry Brigade of the Northern Division of Louisiana, and will be under the command of Brigadier General E. J. Davis, viz: First Texas Cavalry, Sixth Missouri Cavalry, Fourth Wisconsin Cavalry, One hundred and eighteenth Illinois Mounted Infantry. The commanding officer of the Chicago mercantile Battery will report direct to Brigadier-General Bailey, commanding District of Baton Rouge.

By command of Major-General Herron:

WM. H. CLAPP,

Captain and Assistant Adjutant-General.


HDQRS. MILITARY DIVISION OF WEST MISSISSIPPI,
New Orleans, La., February 15, 1865.

Brigadier General DANIEL ULLMANN,

Morganza, La.:

A number of transports with troops are daily expected from above, and will continue to arrive for some time to come. Be pleased to say to the commanding officer of each boat as he passes your post that he is to disembark his troops at Kennerville instead of this city, and that he must report by telegraph from Morganza the strength of his command, the names of the regiments, &c. Please acknowledge receipt of this.

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

C. T. CHRISTENSEN,

Lieutenant-Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.


HDQRS. MILITARY DIVISION OF WEST MISSISSIPPI,
New Orleans, La., February 15, 1865.

Brigadier General DANIEL ULLMANN,

Morganza, La.:

My previous dispatch of this morning is hereby modified so as to apply only to the troops coming from General Thomas' army, not to such as may arrive from the Department of Arkansas or from Memphis. The latter are to disembark at Algiers, the former at Kennerville. Please to note this carefully.

C. T. CHRISTENSEN,

Lieutenant-Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.


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