SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. SOUTHERN DIV. OF LOUISIANA, Numbers 58.
New Orleans, La., February 20, 1865.

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2. In obedience to orders from headquarters Department of the Gulf, the Ninety-first Illinois Volunteers will immediately be put en route for Dauphin Island, Ala., where its commanding officer will report for duty to Major General Gordon Granger, U. S. Volunteers. The quartermaster's department will furnish transportation.

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By command of Brigadier-General Sherman:

FREDERIC SPEED,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF,

New Orleans, February 20, 1865.

Major General F. J. HERRON,

Commanding, &c.:

The following extract from a report of Captain Eaton, chief signal officer, Military Division of West Mississippi, is sent you for your information:

A communication from Captain A. G. Fitz, Port Hudson, February 12, 1865, states he has learned that Colonel Scott was in Clinton, La., on the 10th, and was concentrating the rebel forces in that vicinity for the purpose, as supposed, of making a demonstration toward Port Hudson. Colonel Scott has less than 1,000 men and five pieces of artillery.

GEO. B. DRAKE,

Lieutenant-Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS U. S. FORCES, Numbers 5.
Port Hudson, La., February 20, 1865.

I. In accordance with Special Orders, Numbers 43, paragraph 12, headquarters Department of the Gulf, current series, the undersigned assumes command of the U. S. forces at this post.

II. The following-named officers are hereby announced as the staff of the brigadier-general commanding, and will be obeyed and respected accordingly: Captain George C. Getchell, Eighty-first Regiment U. S. Colored Infantry, acting assistant adjutant-general; Second Lieutenant Horace M. Wing, Eightieth U. S. Colored Infantry, aide-de-camp.

CYRUS HAMLIN,

Brigadier-General of Volunteers.

LEWISBURG, February 20, 1865-5. 20 p. m.

Major JOHN LEVERING,

Assistant Adjutant-General, Little Rock:

Lieutenant Greene has from scout to Quitman, Searcy, and Red River. Witt had returned to former place and scattered his command, which consisted of all bushwhacking companies in that section of country. At Miller's Ferry, on Little Red River, the scout came upon twenty-five rebels. In the charge Corporal Pemberton, of Com-