HEADQUARTERS NORTHERN DIVISION OF LOUISIANA,
Baton Rouge, La., February 28, 1865.

Lieutenant Colonel GEORGE B. DRAKE,

Asst. Adjt. General, Department of the Gulf, New Orleans, La.:

COLONEL: If it is certain that a fourth regiment is coming down which I can stop at Morganza, then the five companies of the Sixty-first might go below. I think two regiments will be sufficient at the present time. From the senior officer with the troops now debarking I can not learn that a fourth regiment is coming. He seems to think not.

F. J. HERRON,

Major-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. NORTHERN DIV. OF LOUISIANA, Numbers 31.
Baton Rouge, La., February 28, 1865.

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II. By direction of the major-general commanding the Department of the Gulf, Lieutenant Colonel John Foley, commanding U. S. troops on steamer John Raine, consisting of nine companies Fifty-fifth U. S. Colored Infantry and five companies Sixty-first U. S. Colored Infantry, will proceed to Morganza, La., with the troops under his command, and report the same to Brigadier General E. J. Davis, commanding at that point.

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By command of Major-General Herron:

W. H. GLADWYN,
First Lieutenant and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

NEW ORLEANS, February 28, 1865.

Major-General HERRON:

I have just received orders to report to you. Where shall I land? I intend to leave to-morrow.

THOS. J. McKEAN,

Brigadier-General, U. S. Volunteers.

HEADQUARTERS NORTHERN DIVISION OF LOUISIANA,
Baton Rouge, La., February 28, 1865.

Brigadier General T. J. McKEAN:

(Care of Department Headquarters, New Orleans, La.)

You have been assigned to the command of the District of Morganza. Report at that point and relieve General Davis. I will probably be there at the time you arrive.

F. J. HERRON,

Major-General.

HEADQUARTERS NORTHERN DIVISION OF LOUISIANA,
Baton Rouge, La., February 28, 1865.

Brigadier General EDMUND J. DAVIS,

Morganza, La.:

GENERAL: The John Raine has just arrived from Memphis with nine companies of the Fifty-fifth and five companies of the Sixty-first U. S. Colored Infantry. I have ordered them to report to you at Mor-