Abstract from return Sub-District of Texas, Brigadier General Henry E. McCulloch, C. S. Army, commanding, for the month of January, 1865

Present for duty.

Command. Offic Men Effecti Aggrega Aggrega

ers ve to te te

tal present present

present and

absent

Staff 7 - - 17 19

Border Regiment 41 564 564 680 862

Barry's battalion 18 226 226 354 501

Post of Tyler 30 457 457 698 1,025

Post of Waco 4 22 22 41 86

Post of Bonham 3 67 67 179 251

Post of Sherman 1 - - 24 24

Post of McKinney 2 - - 52 56

Post of Rusk 5 18 18 136 143

Post of Dallas 3 - - 68 68

Total 114 1,354 1,354 2,249 3,035

Abstract from return of the Western Sub-District of Texas, Brigadier General James E. Slaughter, C. S. Army, commanding, for the month of January, 1865.

Present Pieces of

for duty. artillery.

Command. Offic Men Aggre Aggreg Heavy Field

ers gate ate

prese presen

nt t and

absent

Staff 7 1 8 8 - -

Northern Division 32 149 217 363 - -

(Colonel C. L.

Pyron)

Eastern Division 9 118 149 223 - -

(Colonel A. C.

Jones.)

Western Division 13 224 279 456 - -

(Colonel s.

Benavides.)

Southern Division 48 660 812 1,419 - -

(Colonel John S.

Ford.)

Fort Brown 11 174 257 334 - 6

(Captain O. G.

Jones.)

Total 120 1,326 1,722 2,803 - 6

SHREVEPORT, February [1], 1865.

Honorable ROBERT ROSE,

Shreveport:

SIR: Your request to cross the Rio Grande on private business in Mexico is most cheerfully granted. The proper officer has been directed to furnish you the necessary official evidence of this permission. I avail myself of so favorable an opportunity through you of expressing to the authorities of the Imperial Government the deep interest that I take in all that concerns the prosperity and welfare of their people, and at the same time I desire you to convey to them the sincere pleasure and gratification which I feel in the assurances received from so many sources of their generous sympathize and friendly dispositions toward the Government which I have the honor to represent as the military chief of this department; also to assure them of my ardent desire to cultivate and extend still further the amicable relations already existing, and which I trust will continue to exist between two coterminous nations having like aims and pursuits, and perhaps the same great and glorious destiny. Having entire confidence in your patriotism intelligence, and knowledge of foreign intercourse (you having heretofore