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Numbers 115, paragraph 8, from these headquarters, will proceed without delay to Morganza and report to the commanding officer at that point.
2. The command of Major General Gordon Granger will be extended to include the military district to be created by the major-general commanding the Department of the Gulf, and, except so far as relates to the special instructions received from these headquarters, he will report to the headquarters of that department.
By order of Major General E. R. S. Canby:
C. T. CHRISTENSEN,
Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.
SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF, Numbers 245.
New Orleans, September 11, 1864.* * * * * *
2. Until further orders the District of West Florida will be reported to these headquarters through the headquarters of U. S. Forces, Mobile Bay, and the troops serving within that district will be subject to the orders of the commanding general U. S. Forces, Mobile Bay.
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By command of Major-General Banks:
C. S. SARGENT,
Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.THIBODEAUX, September 11, 1864-6 p.m.
Major GEORGE B. DRAKE,
Assistant Adjutant-General:
Reports come in that the rebels are crossing Lake Verret and approaching Labadieville. I have sent a cavalry force from here and from Napoleonville to see. Everything here is in readiness for them.
R. A. CAMERON,
Brigadier-General of Volunteers.
THIBODEAUX, September 11, 1864-9.30 p.m.
(Received 9.45 p.m.)
Major GEORGE B. DRAKE, or
Captain J. SCHUYLER CROSBY,
Assistant Adjutant-General:
I have been out some distance and have met nothing. What cavalry I have here I have sent to Labadieville with orders to go from there toward Lake Verret, looking for the enemy. Major Clybourn has also gone out from Napoleonville with all the force at his command. More cavalry ought to be sent me in the morning.
R. A. CAMERON,
Brigadier-General of Volunteers.
MORGANZA, September 11, 1864.
(Received 2.30 p.m.)
Captain FARRINGTON,
Aide-de-Camp:
Brigadier-General Dennis writes me under date the 8th that he has arrived safely with his command at the mouth of White River, and has
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