[Second indorsement.]

HDQRS. MILITARY DIVISION OF WEST MISSISSIPPI, New Orleans, September 26, 1864.

Lieutenant-Colonel WOOD,
Provost-Marshal-General:

The major-general commanding is under the impression that there is a person in this city by the name of Leake who deals in powder, and he is evidently the person from whom the within-named powder has been bought. You are to cause him and any others concerned with him in this trade to be arrested.

By order of Major General E. R. S. Canby:

C. T. CHRISTENSEN,

Lieutenant-Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.

HDQRS. MILITARY DIVISION OF WEST MISSISSIPPI, OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER, New Orleans, September 21, 1864.

Major General E. R. S. CANBY,
Commanding Mil. Div. of West Mississippi, New Orleans, La.:

GENERAL: I have the honor to submit to your consideration a statement of the information received at this office this 21st day of September, 1864, from the following source: A report from Actg. Vol. Lieutenant George P. Lord, U. S. Navy, Fort Adams, Miss., September 18. A negro sent to Woodville, Miss., to make investigations in regard to pontoons and rations, reports that a man named Curry has six large boats which he uses for crossing troops over the river. He states that General Dick Taylor has some 3,000 men two miles east of Woodville, and is collecting all possible for an attack on some point, supposed to be either Natchez or Port Hudson.

I am, general, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

FRANK W. MARSTON,

Major, Signal Corps, U. S. Army, Commanding.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. MIL. DIV. OF WEST MISSISSIPPI, No. 135.
New Orleans, La., September 21, 1864.

* * * * * *

3. The Seventieth and Seventy-first Regiments U. S. Colored Infantry will be consolidated and reorganized as the Seventieth Regiment U. S. Colored Infantry. The officers to be retained will be determined by the report of an examining board to be appointed for that purpose, and the supernumerary officers mustered out of the service. The commanding general District of Vicksburg is charged with the execution of this order, and will be governed by the rules laid down in General Orders, No. 17, from these headquarters, for the consolidation of colored regiments in the Department of the Gulf.

* * * * * *

By order of Major General E. R. S. Canby:

B. F. MOREY,
Captain and Assistant Adjutant-General.