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Regiment Texas Cavalry, First Regiment Louisiana Cavalry, Second Regiment New York [Veteran] Cavalry, Eighty-seventh Regiment Illinois Mounted Infantry.
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3. Captain H. W. Closson is hereby relieved from duty with the command of Major-General Granger, and will rejoin his battery wherever it may be. 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,
Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.
HEADQUARTERS NINETEENTH ARMY CORPS,
New Orleans, August 24, 1864.Major C. T. CHRISTENSEN,
Assistant Adjutant-General:
MAJOR: I have the honor to request that the First Louisiana Volunteers, belonging to the Nineteenth Army Corps and now at Donaldsonville, be ordered to join the corps at Morganza.
Very respectfully, &c.,
J. J. REYNOLDS,
Major-General.
HEADQUARTERS DEFENSES OF NEW ORLEANS,
New Orleans, August 24, 1864.Brigadier-General CAMERON,
Thibodeaux:
Your dispatch received. The general has gone to Brashear. I know of no orders detaching Donaldsonville from your command. Until orders are received to the contrary from these headquarters the troops there must report to you. If General Herron desires a report from there please have it sent to him, pending a decision, which will be sent you as soon as the general returns.
FREDERIC SPEED,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
NEW ORLEANS, August 24, 1864.
Brigadier General M. K. LAWLER:
Fort Morgan surrendered unconditionally at 2 p. m. yesterday, 23rd instant.
C. T. CHRISTENSEN,
Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.
HEADQUARTERS U. S. COLORED TROOPS,
Morganza, La., August 24, 1864.COMMANDING OFFICER FIRST BRIGADE:
SIR: You will move the Eighty-fourth Regiment on the river-bank behind the levee next to the white infantry camp, next to where the cavalry was camped, and the Seventy-third next on its left. You will
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