SPECIAL ORDERS,
ADJT. AND INSP. GENERAL'S OFFICE, Numbers 18.
Richmond, January 23, 1865.

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XXXIII. Colonel Smith P. Bankhead, artillery, Provisional Army, C. S., will proceed without delay to headquarters Trans-Mississippi Department, and will report to General E. K. Smith, commanding, &c., for assignment to duty.

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By command of the Secretary of War:

JOHN WITHERS,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS TRANS-MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT,

Shreveport, January 23, 1865.

Major General, S. B. MAXEY,

Commanding District of Indian Territory:

GENERAL: I am directed by the general commanding to call your attention to his letter of yesterday, informing you of the concentration of the enemy's forces at New Orleans. The movements of the enemy require the immediate concentration of the disposable force of the department. He therefore directs that you will send Gano's brigade forthwith, by way of Marshall and Henderson, to Rusk, with orders to report to Major-General Wharton for instructions. General Wharton will be informed of these orders, and instructions as to their final destination will meet them at Rusk or on the road.

I am, general, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

W. R. BOGGS,

Brigadier-General and Chief of Staff.

HEADQUARTERS CHURCHILL'S DIVISION,
Camp Lee, January 23, 1865.

Brigadier-General HAWTHORN,

Commanding Brigade, Dooley's Ferry:

GENERAL: You will move with your brigade to-morrow morning without delay to this point.

T. J. CHURCHILL,

Major-General.

RICHMOND, January 23, 1865.

Major General STERLING PRICE:

MY DEAR GENERAL: Colonel Douglas, the chief engineer of the Trans-Mississippi Department, leaves here in the morning to return to Shreveport, and although I have heard nothing direct from you in response to the communications I have made to you from time to time, still I will not permit the occasion to pass without informing you that I am yet alive. Your orders of leave to me were until further orders, with certain verbal explanations which, I presume, you recollect, but have not had the power of fulfilling. Should you march into Missouri this coming spring with the intention of occupying permanent position in that State I should be pleased to be informed of the fact, and to receive the orders to return that you assured me should be sent upon that con-