HDQRS. CAV. FORCES, MIL. DIV. OF WEST MISSISSIPPI,
New Orleans, La., March 22, 1865.

Captain C. H. DYER,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

CAPTAIN: I respectfully request that Captain Harrison, special inspector of cavalry, Military Division of West Mississippi, be ordered to Memphis, with full authority to bring to this point all the cavalry which has heretofore been ordered here; also 500 Spencer carbines for the Second Jersey Cavalry which are there. The following are the regiments which have been ordered here from Memphis: Eleventh New York, Fourth, Eleventh, and Twelfth Illinois, Second Wisconsin, First Iowa.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

B. H. GRIERSON,

Brevet Major-General.

BATON ROUGE, March 22, 1865.

(Received 10. 50 a. m.)

Major General B. H. GRIERSON,

Cavalry Headquarters:

Have just arrived with Third Michigan and detachment of Tenth Illinois Cavalry. The rest of my brigade should reach here to day. Command is in readiness and anxious for immediate field service. I wait, on board my transports, your orders, as to our destination.

J. K. MIZNER,

Colonel Third Michigan Cavalry, Commanding Brigade.

HDQRS. CAV. FORCES, MIL. DIV. OF WEST MISSISSIPPI,
New Orleans, La., March 22, 1865.

Colonel J. K. MIZNER,

Commanding Cavalry on Board Transports, Baton Rouge, La.:

COLONEL: You are hereby directed to proceed with your command to Carrollton, La., without delay.

B. H. GRIERSON,

Brevet Major-General.

HEADQUARTERS SOUTHERN DIVISION OF LOUISIANA,
New Orleans, March 22, 1865.

Brigadier General R. A. CAMERON,

Commanding District of La Fourche:

I am instructed by Brigadier-General Sherman to ask you to refer to the letter written you in August last (a copy of which is inclosed*) relative to pickets on Lake Palourde and the road skirting Bayou L'Ours. It is the opinion of General Sherman that if this system of pickets and patrols were carried out there could be no invasion of the country between Bayou Boeuf and Bayou L'Ours without due apprisal. A picket of one corporal and three privates at the junction of Bayou Boeuf and Lake Palourde is worse than useless, and does not carry out the idea intended to be conveyed in the letter referred to. Such a

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* Not found as an inclosure, but see Vol. XLI, Part II, p. 849.

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