HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF,
New Orleans, February 17, 1865.

Major-General HERRON,

Commanding Northern Division of Louisiana, Baton Rouge:

Order the First Louisiana Cavalry, Second Illinois Cavalry, and the Second New [Veteran] Cavalry to Greenville, La., immediately, to report to General Lucas. If you have no transportation reply, and it will be sent from here.

By command of Major-General Hurlbut:

J. C. STONE,

Captain and Assistant Adjutant-General.

BATON ROUGE, February 17, 1865-2 p. m.

Lieutenant Colonel G. B. DRAKE,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

I received last evening the orders regarding the cavalry regiments to be sent to Greenville. The Second Illinois is now being loaded, and the boats will leave this afternoon. There is no transportation above here that can be used for the other regiment. If their presence is required at once, boats should be sent up. I will, however, use any steamers that come along.

F. J. HERRON,

Major-General.

[First indorsement.]

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF,
New Orleans, February 17, 1865.

Respectfully forwarded.

Transportation will be sent from here, if deemed advisable by the major-general commanding the military division.

S. A. HURLBUT,

Major-General, Commanding.

[Second indorsement.]

HDQRS. MILITARY DIVISION OF WEST MISSISSIPPI,
New Orleans, La., February 19, 1865.

Respectfully referred to the chief quartermaster of the division for mark.

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

ALFRED FREIBURG,

Captain, Eighty-fourth U. S. Colored Infty., and Actg. Asst. Adjt. General

[Third indorsement.]

OFFICE OF CHIEF QUARTERMASTER,

MILITARY DIVISION OF WEST MISSISSIPPI,

New Orleans, La., February 20, 1865.

Transportation has been ordered from here to bring the balance of this cavalry.

Respectfully,

C. G. SAWTELLE,

Lieutenant Colonel and Chief Quartermaster, Mil. Div. of West Mississippi.