535 Series I Volume XXXIV-II Serial 62 - Red River Campaign Part II
| Page 535 | Chapter XLVI. CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. - UNION. |
GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. RED RIVER EXPEDITION, No. 2. On Steamer W. L. Ewing, March 9, 1864.The general commanding announces the organization of his staff, as follows:
Major N. R. Derby, U. S. Volunteers, medical director.
Captain John Hough, assistant adjutant-general.
Captain William S. Burns, Fourth Missouri Cavalry, assistant inspector-general.
Captain George W. Baker, U. S. Volunteers, commissary of subsistence.
Captain J. M. Cockefair, Third Indiana Battery, chief of artillery.
Captain J. J. Lyon, Twenty-fourth Missouri Infantry, judge-advocate.
Lieutenant George W. Fetterman, Fifteenth U. S. Infantry, assistant commissary of musters.
Lieutenant J. B. Pannes, Seventeenth New York Infantry, ordnance officer.
Lieutenant Ross Wilkinson, Fifth Minnesota, aide-de-camp.
A. J. SMITH,
Brigadier-General, Commanding.
SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. RED RIVER EXPEDITION, No. 3. Str. Ewing, Vicksburg, Miss., March 9, 1864.* * * * * * *
2. Brigadier General J. A. Mower, in addition to the First Division, will assume the immediate command of the Third Division, Sixteenth Army Corps. Brigade commanders of the Third Division will send all reports and returns to his headquarters.
* * * * * * *
By order of Brigadier General A. J. Smith:
J. HOUGH,
Assistant Adjutant-General.FRANKLIN, LA., March 9, 1864-8.45 p.m.
Brigadier General C. P. STONE,
Chief of Staff:
Dudley's brigade is crossing at Berwick to-day. A portion of it will report here to-morrow, the rest by noon next day. Yesterday there was a heavy rain at Tigerville and east, and the roads so heavy that the march was slow. The rest of my division is here. It has rained here about twelve hours and the roads are very bad.
Very respectfully,
A. L. LEE,
Chief of Cavalry.
HEADQUARTERS U. S. FORCES ON THE RIO GRANDE,
Brownsville, Tex., March 9, 1864.Brigadier General CHARLES P. STONE,
Chief of Staff:
GENERAL: Late news from the interior of Mexico confirms the reports of the defeat of the French at Guadalajara, by the Juarez troops under General Uraga, and if any faith can be placed in Mexico
| Page 535 | Chapter XLVI. CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. - UNION. |
- Confederate President Jefferson Davis calls for March 27 to be a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer.
- Following the Underground Railroad Route By Bicycle
- March is Women's History Month! Read the fascinating accounts of women spies hiding coded messages in women's hair, conductors of the Underground Railroad, soldiers disguised as men, surgeons, and advisors to the President!
- Teachers tackle race, economic disparity and history
- The President's Hymn: 'Give Thanks All Ye People'
- Thanksgiving Day during the Civil War
- Lincoln’s Thanksgiving proclamation in a divided time: ‘one heart and one voice by the whole American People’
- What Abraham Lincoln found reading the Book of Job amid civil war
- Civil War stories on display at Lincoln Highway museum in Unity
- Who was Henry Benning, for whom Fort Benning in Columbus was named?
- Fort Gordon Army Base: Who was John Brown Gordon?
- From the Civil War to the football field, we have been celebrating the wrong values
- History and Healing: Removing Controversial Artifacts from the Civic Landscape
- How to Reframe the Civil War in the Classroom
- Man scores Abraham Lincoln autograph in box of trading cards
- Native Americans' role in the Civil War
- Abraham Lincoln Healed a Divided Nation. We Should Heed His Words Today.
- An escaped slave was the 'Florence Nightingale’ of Indiana's Civil War regiment
- A Southern Democrat survived impeachment trap and came to be in charge of Reconstruction
- New Statue Unveiled In Response To Richmond's Confederate Monuments