HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT, OF THE GULF, Grand Ecore, April 4, 1864.

Brigadier General A. J. SMITH,
Commanding Detachments 16th and 17th Army Corps:

GENERAL: The major-general commanding desires to know whether you have any information of the road to Shreveport on the east bank of the river, and, if so, please send a full description of it. If you have not, you will please take immediate steps to find out the information desired.

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

J. SCHUYLER CROSBY,

Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF, Grand Ecore, April 4, 1864.

Brigadier General A. L. LEE,
Commanding Cavalry Division:

GENERAL: The commanding general directs that you report to Major-General Franklin until further orders.

I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

GEO. B. DRAKE,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. 1ST DIV., 13TH ARMY CORPS, Numbers 27.
Matagorda Island, Tex., April 4, 1864.

I. The undersigned hereby assumes command of the First Division, Thirteenth Army Corps.

II. Colonel H. D. Washburn, Eighteenth Indiana Volunteers, will immediately take command of the First Brigade, First Division.

III. At his own and the request of Brigadier-General Lawler, Captain Bluford Wilson is relieved from duty as assistant adjutant-general First Division, and will report at once to General Lawler.

IV. Captain Joseph C. Stone is hereby relieved from duty as assistant adjutant-general First Brigade, First Division, and is announced as assistant adjutant-general First Division, Thirteenth Army Corps.

By command of Brigadier General Fitz Henry Warren:

[B. WILSON,]

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HDQRS. DETACH. 7TH ARMY CORPS, DEPT. OF ARK., Little Rock, April 4, 1864.

Major General W. T. SHERMAN,
Commanding:

GENERAL: Major-General Steele left this point at the head of his column on an expedition toward Red River on the 23rd of March. Before leaving he placed me in command, as per inclosed order. When last heard from he was near Arkadelphia. General Thayer, who moved from Fort Smith and who was to have joined General Steele at Arkadelphia on the 29th, had not reached him on the 1st instant, nor had he been heard from. Major Green, assistant adjutant-general on the staff of General Steele, will inform you of all these particulars.