badly. Am entirely out of breadstuff; have been for two days. Cannot get grinding done anywhere this side of Batesville. Have sent on ten wagon-loads of corn and wheat to that place with a guard. When will we stop, and where, to rest, shoe horses, and get bread for the men? No news other than contained in my letter of last night, herewith sent.*

Respectfully

J. F. FAGAN,

Major-General.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. TRANS-MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT. Numbers 70
Shreveport, La., September 12, 1864.

This department is hereby divided into four purchasing districts for the accumulation of supplies for the subsistence department; First. The District of Arkansas. Second. The District of West Louisiana . Third. All the State of Texas south of the southern boundaries of the Freestone, Limestone, McLennan, Coryell, Hamilton, and Brown; thence along the Colorado River to its source; thence due west to the Rio Grande. Fourth. The Indian Territory and all the State of Texas not embraced in the Third District.

II. The chief commissaries upon the staff of the generals commanding the Districts of Arkansas, West Louisiana, and Texas, will be the chief purchasing officers of the First, Second, and Third District, respectively. Major J. K. P. Campbell, commissary of subsistence is announced as the chief purchasing officer of the Fourth District, and will report to the chief of subsistence of the department for instructions.

By command of General E. Kirby Smith:

S. S. ANDERSON.

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS TRANS-MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT,
Shreveport, La., September 12, 1864.

Major-General WALKER

Commanding District of Texas:

GENERAL: The general commanding directs that your order Colonel Terry's regiment to proceed without delay to Camden and report to Major-General Magruder.

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

W. R. BOGGS,

Brigadier-General and Chief of Staff.

HEADQUARTERS TRANS-MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT.

Shreveport, September 12, 1864.

General WALKER,
Houston, Tex.:

Reports of prisoners escaping from Tyler are being received constantly. Colonel Sweet, with his battalion, the only disposable force here,

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*See p. 919.

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