HEADQUARTERS U. S. FORCES,
Morganza, La., October 12, 1864 - 8.30 a. m.

Major-General REYNOLDS,

Commanding Nineteenth Corps, New Orleans:

The Troops named in your dispatch of 11 a. m. yesterday have just left. They would have got off last night at 10 but for the fog. A portion of Guppey's brigade is with Dye at Jackson's Point, but will be picked up at that place. Detachment First Brigade, Third Division, 1,502 for duty; detachment Third Brigade, Second Division, 1,228 for duty; aggregate, 2.730. The strength of the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Illinois Volunteers not known, and not included.

M. K. LAWLER,

Brigadier-General.

NEW ORLEANS, October 12, 1864.

Brigadier-General LAWLER:

The general commanding desires you to hold in readiness to embark with him at short notice one commissioned officer and thirty men of First Kansas Mounted Infantry. They will be picked men and in condition for the field. Shall probably go up in a day or two.

S. C. FARRINGTON,

Major and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

NEW ORLEANS, October 12, 1864.

Brigadier-General LAWLER:

The major-general commanding directs me to say that no artillery is to be sent up river at present from Morganza. Send list of officers on detached service from regiments moving, and also from First Louisiana Cavalry, by telegraph.

S. C. FARRINGTON,

Major and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF VICKSBURG,
Vicksburg, Miss., October 12, 1864.

Lieutenant Colonel C. T. CHRISTENSEN,

Assistant Adjutant-General, Mil. Div. of West Mississippi:

I have to request that you will, as soon as possible, in accordance with General Orders, Numbers 251, War Department, designate as separate brigades, in orders, the posts of Natchez and Vicksburg, and the District of Vicksburg. This is necessary to legalize the action of courts now in session, and I am constrained to make the request owing to the inconvenience of communication with the headquarters of Department and Army of the Tennessee.

Very respectfully,

N. J. T. DANA,

Major-General.