GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. TRANS MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT, Numbers 11.
Shreveport, La., February 14, 1865.

I. The following-named officers are charged with the manufacture and repairs of field transportation and the supplying and recruiting of mules and artillery horses in their respective districts: Major Ed. A. Burk, District of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, office at Paris, Tex.: Major A. S. Morgan, District of Arkansas, office at Washington, Ark.: Major D. N. Speer, District of West Louisiana office at Natchitoches, La. ; Major Samuel Robinson, District of Indian Territory, office at Doaksville, Choctaw Nation. They will report to and receive their instructions from Major C. D. Hill, chief inspector of field transportation, Trans-Mississippi Department, and are relieved from the control of the district commanders. All requisitions for field transportation must be made by chief quartermasters of districts of upon Major C. D. Hill, chief inspector, and none of the officers named will issue unless the requisition has his approval.

By command of General E. Kirby Smith:

S. S. ANDERSON.

Assistant Adjutant-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. TRANS-MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT Numbers 40.
Shreveport, La., February 14, 1865.

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XIII. Brigadier General Stand Watie will relieve Brigadier General D. H. Cooper in the command of the division of Indian troops in the District of Indian Territory. In accordance with instructions from the War Department, Brigadier General D. H. Cooper is assigned to duty as superintendent of Indian affairs in the District of Indian Territory.

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By command of General E. Kirby Smith:

P. B. LEEDS,
Major and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF WEST LOUISIANA,

Natchitoches, February 14, 1865

Brigadier General W. R. BOGGS,

Chief of Staff, Shreveport, La.:

GENERAL: Should it not be deemed proper by the War Department to assent to my recommendation of the promotion and assignment to the Louisiana division of my corps of Brigadier General Harry T. Hays or Saint John R. Liddell, I respectfully request, if the assignment can be appropriately made, that Major General Carter L. Stevenson be ordered to report to me to command the Louisiana division formerly commanded by Major-General Polignac.

Respectfully, your obedient servant,

S. B. BUCKNER,

Lieutenant-General, Commanding.