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Fourth. The quartermaster's department will furnish the necessary transportation.
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By order of Major General E. R. S. Canby:
C. T. CHRISTENSEN,
Lieutenant-Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.
SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. SOUTHERN DIV. OF LOUISIANA, Numbers 187.
New Orleans, June 15, 1865.* * * * *
4. The four companies of the Seventy-eighth U. S. Colored Infantry now at Donaldsonville will proceed to Thibodeaux and report to the commanding officer of the regiment. All the companies of the Seventy-fifth U. S. Colored Infantry, at present stationed this side of Brashear, will concentrate at once at Terre Bonne under the senior officer. Proper requisitions will be made and the troops be held in readiness to march. The quartermaster's department will furnish the necessary transportation.
By order of Brevet Major-General Sherman:
WICKHAM HOFFMAN,
Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.
HEADQUARTERS ARMIES OF THE UNITED STATES,Washington, June 15, 1865 - 6. 30 p. m.
Major-General POPE, Saint Louis, Mo.:
I have ordered to Arkansas 5,000 infantry and to saint Louis a brigade of infantry and a brigade of cavalry to enable You to carry out orders for mustering out troops. If the troops raised from the rebel prisoners answer the purpose they may be retained. New Mexico will be added to Your command, and I expect some additional forces will be necessary there.
U. S. GRANT,
Lieutenant-General.
WASHINGTON, June 15, 1865 - 6. 30 p. m.
Major-General POPE, Saint Louis, Mo.:
Pursue the course recommended by You toward the Indians until You receive other orders. I approve of all You recommended, and presume no change will be made of that policy.
U. S. GRANT,
Lieutenant-General.
HEADQUARTERS MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSOURI,
June 15, 1865.Major-General REYNOLDS, Little Rock:
Five thousand infantry have been sent to You to enable You to muster out men in accordance with existing orders. Will that be enough? Also 1,000 cavalry horses, which General Grant suggests should be used to mount the Fourteenth Kansas Cavalry.
JOHN POPE,
Major-General.
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