ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE,

Washington, March 21, 1865.

Major-General CANBY,

New Orleans, La.:

The General Orders, Numbers 44, telegraphed to you to-day, includes also the transfer of the Indian Territory to the Military Division of the Missouri.

By order of the Secretary of War:

E. D. TOWNSEND,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

(Same to Major-General Pope, Saint Louis, Mo., and Major-General Reynolds, Little Rock, Ark.)

HDQRS. MILITARY DIVISION OF WEST MISSISSIPPI,
OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER,

New Orleans, La., March 21, 1865.

Lieutenant Colonel C. T. CHRISTENSEN,

Asst. Adjt. General, Military Division of West Mississippi:

COLONEL: I have the honor to submit to your consideration the following report of information received at this office this 21st day of March, 1865: A deserter estimates the number of guns at Shreveport at eighty; at Natchitoches, ten, and at Alexandria twelve. Marmaduke's and Cabell's old troops are reported at the mouth of D'Arbonne Bayou, near Monroe, La. It is reported that the heavy artillery is being moved from Alexandria to Grand Ecore. A deserter who came from a point near Fort De Russy reports no troops there except a few scouts. The people are still expecting the U. S. gun-boats up Red River. From all sources are reports of continued and increasing demoralization in the rebel ranks.

I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

A. M. JACKSON,

Major, Tenth U. S. Colored Heavy Artillery.

(In absence of Captain S. M. Eaton.)

HEADQUARTERS SOUTHERN DIVISION OF LOUISIANA,
New Orleans, March 21, 1865.

The following is a statement made by Henry Malone and Samuel Wolf, C. S. Navy, who deserted from an expedition that left Mobile six weeks since. The expedition was commanded by Lieutenant McDermott and Lieutenant Wilkinson, C. S. Navy, with about forty-five men of the navy and four boats. They placed their boats on cars and went to Meridian, from thence to Jackson, to the West Pearl River, and struck the Jackson railroad; placed their boats on the cars and went to Brookhaven, where we placed the boats on wagons and went to Woodville; from thence to Buffalo Bayou, which empties into the Mississippi River; sailed down to within three miles of its mouth, remained there that night and returned to the head of the bayou the next morning; placed the boats on wagons and returned to Woodville; from thence to Liberty bridge, on the Amite River. From this place one boat and six men returned to Mobile. The remaining boats sailed down as far as Goss Mills and remained there two days; placed the boats on wagons