HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF MISSISSIPPI,
Vicksburg, Miss., May 6, 1865.

Brigadier General J. W. DAVIDSON,

Commanding District of Natchez:

GENERAL: I have the pleasure of communicating to you the news of the surrender of Lieutenant-General Taylor and the forces under his command to Major-General Canby, and by direction of Major-General Dana to inclose the accompanying telegram, received via Jackson this a. m. *

I am, sir, respectfully,

FREDERIC SPEED,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

WASHINGTON, May 6, 1865-1. 30 p. m.

Major General GEORGE H. THOMAS,

Nashville, Tenn.:

Please send such cavalry as you can spare, not exceeding a full brigade, to Major-General Pope, commanding Military Division of the Missouri.

By command of Lieutenant-General Grant:

JOHN A. RAWLINS,

Brigadier-General and Chief of Staff.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF ARKANSAS,
Little Rock, May 6, 1865. (Received 5 p. m. 9th.)

Major-General POPE:

In accordance with the understanding that as many of the Indians as possible at Fort Gibson were to be made efficient, I ordered General Blunt to reorganize them, by Special Order 103, April 29. From recent indications I doubt the approval of the order by the War Department. Please telegraph the Department on the subject and advise.

J. J. REYNOLDS,

Major-General.

LITTLE ROCK, May 6, 1865.

Brigadier-General CLAYTON:

Brevet Major-General Salomon will, by direction of Major-General Reynolds, send to-day by steamer a force of 300 men to destroy a party of 200 guerrillas reported to be camped on the north bank of the river about forty miles below Pine Bluff. Have you any information in relation to this enemy, and will you co-operate by sending out a force of cavalry?

A. S. KENDRICK,

Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

PINE BLUFF, ARK., May 6, 1865.

Lieutenant A. S. KENDRICK,

Acting Assistant Adjutant-General, Little Rock:

I have no information of as large force as you report. Vaugine with about fifty men showed himself at my outpost on the north side

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*Not found as an inclosure, but see Osterhaus to Dana, May 4, p.

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