at the mouth of Red Rivere. The quartermaster's department will furnish transportation.

5. The Fourteenth Maine Veteran Volunteers, at Baton Rouge, will be reported without delay, at the mouth of Red River, to Major-General Canby, commanding Division of West Mississippi, for duty.

The quartermaster's department will furnish transportation.

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By command of Major General J. J. Reynolds:

JOHN LEVERING,

Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.

HDQRS. MILITARY DIVISION OF WEST MISSISSIPPI,
Mouth of Red River, La., May 15, 1864.

Brigadier General JAMES M. TUTTLE,

Commanding District of Natchez, Natchez, Miss.:

SIR: You will please send to this place, with as little delay as possible, 200,000 rations of subsistence, for the use of Major-General Banks' army. If full rations cannot be sent, send the essential articles and send hard bread instead. It is important that there should be no failure in sending these supplies down at once.

Very respectfully, sir, your obedient servant,

ED. R. S. CANBY,

Major-General, Commanding.

HDQRS. SECOND DIVISION, SEVENTH ARMY CORPS,
Little Rock, Ark., May 15, 1864.

Colonel W. H. GRAVES,

Twelfth Michigan, Commanding First Brigade:

COLONEL: You will please order the Sixty-first Illinois Infantry to encamp in the vicinity of the depot, on the opposite side of the river, directing that they shall move at as early an hour to-morrow morning as practicable. The commanding officer will be instructed by you to furnish the train guard to the railroad, and also to relieve the pickets that are furnished by the Fifty-seventh U. S. Colored, now stationed at the deport. Lieutenant Barrett, division quartermaster, is instructed to provide transportation for the movement.

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

J. R. WEST,

Brigadier-General, Commanding.

HDQRS. SECOND DIVISION, SEVENTH ARMY CORPS,
Little Rock, Ark., Mary 15, 1864.

Colonel W. H. GRAVES,

Commanding First Brigade, Little Rock:

COLONEL: You will please send 120 men to Battery Mason to-morrow morning to work upon rifle-pits; they should be under charge of officers familiar with the work that is to be done. The necessary tools