SPECIAL ORDERS, HDQRS. NINETEENTH ARMY CORPS, Numbers 209.
New Orleans, La., October 5, 1864.

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3. The Seventy-seventh Regiment Illinois Volunteers will proceed to New Orleans without delay and be reported to Major-General Hurlbut, commanding Department of the Gulf, for temporary duty. The quartermaster's department will furnish transportation.

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By command of Major General J. J. Reynolds:

S. C. FARRINGTON,
Major and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS U. S. FORCES,

Morganza, La., October 5, 1864.

Colonel J. J. GUPPEY,

Commanding Detachment, Saint Francisville:

COLONEL: The general commanding directs me to inform you that in consequence of the reported firing this morning he sends you another regiment. The general also directs that as soon as the detachments sent out by you on the Woodville and Clinton roads return you embark your command and return to Morganza.

Very respectfully,

B. WILSON,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS, HDQRS. FIRST DIVISION, 7TH ARMY CORPS, Numbers 114.
Little Rock, October 5, 1864.

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III. Battery E, Second Missouri Light Artillery, is hereby assigned as garrison of Fort Steele. Captain Jackson will enter upon the duties as command officer of Fort Steele as soon as he has turned in his old battery.

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By order of Brigadier General F. Salomon:

A. BLOCKI,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

PINE BLUFF, ARK., October 5, 1864.

Captain C. H. DYER,

Assistant Adjutant-General, District of Little Rock:

The Carrie Jacobs arrived about 4 p. m. to-day, bringing the Twenty-seventh Wisconsin Infantry. No news of importance from the enemy.

POWELL CLAYTON,

Brigadier-General, Commanding.

PINE BLUFF, ARK., October 5,1 864.

Major-General STEELE:

The infantry re-enforcements arrived this evening. Colonel Ritter's brigade has not arrived. I presume it will be here to-morrow forenoon.