Abstract from return of the Department of the Northwest, Major General John Pope, U. S. Army, commanding, for the month of September, 1864.

[Compiled mainly from subordinate returns.]

Present for duty.

Command. Officers. Men. Aggregate Aggrega

present. te

present

and

absent.

General 15 11 26 26

headquarters.

District of Iowa:

Northwestern Indian 33 848 1,115 2,072

expedition (Sully).

Garrisons, &c. (Ten 15 389 449 451

Broeck).

District of 67 1,773 2,194 2,194

Minnesota (Sibley).

District of 14 249 419 529

Wisconsin (Smith).

Total. 144 3,270 4,203 5,272

Pieces of artillery.

Command. Heavy. Field. Headquarters.

General ........... ........... Milwaukee,

headquarters. Wis.

District of Iowa:

Northwestern Indian .......... 4 In the field.

expedition (Sully).

Garrisons, &c. (Ten .......... ........... Davenport,

Broeck). Iowa.

District of ........... 12 Saint Paul,

Minnesota (Sibley). Minn.

District of ........... ........... Milwaukee,

Wisconsin (Smith). Wis.

Total. ........... ...........

GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF,

Numbers 143.
New Orleans, October 1, 1864.

Lieutenant Colonel W. S. Abert, assistant inspector-general, having been relieved from duty in this department by orders from headquarters military Division of West Mississippi, Lieutenant Colonel W. H. Thurston, assistant inspector-general, is announced as assistant inspector-general, and will be obeyed and respected accordingly.

By command of Major-General Hurlbut:

GEORGE B. DRAKE,

Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF VICKSBURG,
Natchez, Miss., October 1, 1864-11 a. m.

Brigadier-General LAWLER,

Commanding U. S. Forces at Morganza:

GENERAL: Major-General Reynolds, when at Vicksburg a few days ago, informed me that I could call upon you for about 1,000 cavalry to aid in the operations I am conducting, and said he would notify you of it in passing Morganza. My cavalry, 1,000 strong, with a battery, landed at Bruinsburg yesterday morning, and are now beating up the country from Port Gibson here. I shall have them land on Monday at Fort Adams (about 1,200 cavalry and four guns) with orders to proceed at once to a point on the road from Bayou Sabra to Woodville, where the Louisiana line crosses it, and in order to create a diversion and keep any troops which may be at or in the vicinity of Clinton from re-enforcing those which are near Woodville, and those which have been drawn this way from Jackson by my operations, I request that you will have Colonel Davis (or such other officer as you can spare) with 1,000 men or more (preferably cavalry) land at Bayou Sabra at daylight on Monday morning, or as soon after as possible, and make a demonstration toward Clinton with a small detachment sent up twenty or thirty miles toward Woodville. My troops will immediately, on reach-

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