GENERAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS U. S. FORCES, Numbers 6.
Morganza, La., February 27, 1865.

In obedience to orders from headquarters Northern Division of Louisiana, the undersigned hereby assumes temporary command of this post.

EDMUND J. DAVIS,

Brigadier-General of Volunteers.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS U. S. FORCES, Numbers 7.
Morganza, La., February 27, 1865.

The following-named officers are hereby announced as comprising the staff of the brigadier-general commanding: Surg. E. P. Gray, Seventy-eighth New York Volunteers, surgeon in charge; Captain J. E. Howard, commissary of subsistence of volunteers, depot and post commissary; Captain A. D. Bailie, Sixty-fifth U. S. Colored Infantry, provost-marshal; Captain D. A. Ward, Sixty-fifth U. S. Colored Infantry, acting assistant quartermaster; First Lieutenant and Adjt. L. B. Jenks, Ninety-second U. S. Colored Infantry, acting assistant adjutant-general; First Lieutenant Charles Boonarth, Sixty-seventh, U. S. Colored Infantry, acting aide-de-camp; First Lieutenant W. T. Goodwin, Sixty-fifth U. S. Colored Infantry, acting post ordnance officer.

EDMUND J. DAVIS,

Brigadier-General of Volunteers.

HDQRS. 2nd PROVISIONAL Brigadier, U. S. COLORED TROOPS,
Morganza, La., February 27, 1865.

Lieutenant L. B. JENKS,

Actg. Asst. Adjt. General, U. S. Forces, Morganza, La.:

I have the honor to make the following statement for the information of the general commanding: The Sixty-second, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-seventh Regiments U. S. Colored Infantry were formed into a Provisional Brigade last March. By Special Orders, Numbers 282, Department of the Gulf, series, 1864, the Sixty-fifth, Sixty-seventh, and Ninety-ninth Regiments were formed into the Second Brigade, First Division, U. S. Colored Troops. The Ninety-ninth has since been ordered to Tortugas, Fla. By Special Orders, Numbers 41, Department of the Gulf, February 13, 1865, the above-mentioned order, Numbers 282, was revoked. When I received said Order Numbers 41 I asked General Ullmann, then commanding, the condition of the Sixty-fifth and Sixty-seventh Regiments, and was informed by him that they would still constitute the Provisional Brigade the same as before Special Orders, Numbers 282, was issued. No order was issued to that effect, but it was the well-known intention of the general to constitute a brigade of these two regiments on the right of the fort. If this is still the intention I would respectfully ask an order to that effect.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

A. J. EDGERTON,

Colonel Sixty-seventh U. S. Colored Infantry, Commanding Brigade.