HEADQUARTERS SOUTHERN DIVISION OF LOUISIANA,
New Orleans, February 25, 1865.

Lieutenant Colonel C. H. PARKHURST,

Commanding at Hermitage Plantation:

Brigadier-General Sherman directs that you will scour the whole country up to Amite River and down as far as College Point, and as far beyond the Amite as you may think advisable and judicious. It is desirable to know as early as possible the condition of that country at the present time, and if there is any enemy beyond the Amite, and what and who they are. Where is Doyal? If he has left, who has been sent down there to replace him?

I am, sir, respectfully,

FREDERIC SPEED,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF,
New Orleans, February 25, 1865.

Major General F. J. HERRON,

Commanding Northern Division of Louisiana:

I am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of the 22nd instant, concerning the effective force the cavalry at your command, and to refer you concerning the points mentioned therein to a letter of a later date, forwarded to you by special messenger.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

GEO. B. DRAKE,

Lieutenant-Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS U. S. FORCES, Numbers 4.
Morganza, La., February 25, 1865.

I. The following-named officers are hereby announced on the staff of the brigadier-general commanding: First Lieutenant and Adjt. A. F. Hunt, Sixty-fifth U. S. Colored Infantry, acting assistant adjutant-general.

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By command of Brigadier General Daniel Ullmann:

LOUIS E. GRANGER,

First Lieutenant and Aide-de-Camp.

HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF EASTERN ARKANSAS,
Helena, Ark., February 25, 1865.

Major General J. J. REYNOLDS,

Commanding Department of Arkansas:

GENERAL: Apprehending you may not have a large map of the river above and below Gaines' Landing, I have procured one from the Treasury department here and had a part of it copied, which I inclose you. * As I am informed, the road from Camden to Gaines' Landing is one that is traveled more than the one from the same place to Columbia but that the letter place communicates equally well with the country west of it, it would take but one day, with a small cavalry escort, to

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*Not found.

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