HEADQUARTERS TRANS-MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT,
Shreveport, February 16, 1865

Major General J. G. WALKER,

Commanding, &c., Houston:

Your dispatch concerning expedition for Brownsville is received. Information from New Orleans states that 5,000 men have sailed for Brazos and forty-old thousand troops are concentrated at New Orleans and additional troops are still passing down Mississippi River. All boats on Mississippi are being impressed and concentrated. It will therefore be impossible to re-enforce the command at Brownsville. If not able to repulse enemy, the force at Brownsville should fall back up the river.

E. KIRBY SMITH.

General.

SPECIAL ORDERS.
HEADQUARTERS CHURCHILL'S DIVISION. Numbers 35.
Camp Magruder, February 16, 1865.

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III. Major Blocher with his artillery battalion will move at once to Collinsburg, or the vicinity of that place, where he will encamp and remain till further orders, reporting direct to these headquarters.

IV. Information having been received from the chief of artillery Trans-Mississippi Department, that funds for the purchase of fodder for the artillery horses of this division could be obtained at Shreveport, Major Blocher, commanding artillery battalion, will at once send his quartermaster to that place to receive such funds as will be turned over to him for the object above specified.

By command of Major-General Churchill:

C. E. KIDDER,
Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. TRANS-MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT Numbers 43.
Shreveport, La., February 17, 1865

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VII. Paragraph XI, Special Orders, Numbers 8, current series, from these headquarters, is revoked. Lieutenant-Colonel Sims with his battalion of mounted infantry will proceed to Bonham, Tex., and report to Brigadier General H. E. McCulloch.

VIII. Paragraph VI, Special Orders, Numbers 37, current series, from these headquarters, is revoked. Colonel Martin will proceed forthwith with his Regiment to Hempstead, Tex., and report to Major-General Wharton.

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By command of General E. Kirby Smith:

P. B. LEEDS.

Major and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS TRANS-MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT,
Shreveport, La., February 17, 1865.

Lieutenant General S. B. BUCKNER,

Commanding District of West Louisiana, Natchitoches, La.:

GENERAL; A portion of the cavalry which are to be dismounted having reached Marshall, Tex., the general commanding has directed them