SPECIAL ORDERS, WAR DEPT., ADJT. GENERAL'S OFFICE, Numbers 77.
Washington, February 16, 1865.

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31. Major General P. J. Osterhaus, U. S. Volunteers, will report in person without delay to Major-General Canby, U. S. Volunteers, commanding Military Division of West Mississippi, for assignment to duty. Permission to pass through Washington, D. C., en route is hereby granted him.

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By order of the Secretary of War:

E. D. TOWNSEND,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS, HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF, Numbers 44.
New Orleans, February 16, 1865.

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3. Company K, of the First Louisiana Volunteer Cavalry, is hereby relieved from duty in the District of La Fourche, and will proceed without delay to join the regiment, now stationed at Baton Rouge, La. The quartermaster's department will furnish the necessary transportation.

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By command of Major-General Hurlbut:

J. C. STONE,

Captain and Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF,
New Orleans, February 16, 1865.

Brigadier General T. W. SHERMAN:

GENERAL: The three regiments ordered from Southern Division must be got in readiness for the field (the Seventh Vermont, Seventy-seventh Illinois, and Ninety-first Illinois). I am informed by General Canby that these vacancies must be supplied from department force. The Twentieth U. S. Colored Infantry are now within your lines, and any additional force you may require will be ordered from Port Hudson. Let me know if you want any other regiment.

Yours,

S. A. HURLBUT,

Major-General, Commanding.

HEADQUARTERS SOUTHERN DIVISION OF LOUISIANA,
New Orleans, February 16, 1865.

Brigadier General R. A. CAMERON,

Commanding District of La Fourche:

I am instructed by Brigadier-General Sherman to acknowledge the receipt of reports and telegrams relating to recent movements in search of guerrillas. Also to inform you that there is still a defect in the stationing of the pickets intended to watch the passage back of Kittredge's Sugar Mill. The rebels must have come through there; then the picket, in order to fail seeing them, must be improperly posted or