HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF WEST LOUISIANA, Near Bayou Robeline, April 21, 1864.

Colonel S. S. ANDERSON,
Assistant Adjutant-General:

COLONEL: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your dispatches of the 20th. Walker's division can come to Campti with safety. Be pleased to order it there at once, and send me the pontoon train to report to me wherever I may be. Please order down by steam-boat all the supplies possible as far as Blair's Landing, where further orders will meet them. The enemy still remains in position at Grand Ecore, gradually removing his forces by the river. A portion of my cavalry is in front of Grand Ecore; the remainder on Cane River and at Monett's Ferry, with orders to place light batteries on Red River. My small infantry force is at and near the "double bridge" on Bayou Robeline.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

R. TAYLOR,

Major-General, Commanding.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DISTRICT OF WEST LOUISIANA, Numbers --.
In the Field, near Pleasant Hill, La., April 21, 1864.

Major General John A. Wharton is hereby assigned to the command of all the cavalry in the Army of West Louisiana now serving south of Red River. This officer comes to the Trans-Mississippi Department with a reputation second to none in the service, and the major-general commanding relies with confidence upon his skill and ability to lead the gallant sons of Texas to victory.

By command of Major-General Taylor:

E. SURGET,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DIST. OF WEST LOUISIANA,
OFFICE CHIEF OF ART. AND ORDNANCE, Numbers --.
In the Field, April 21, 1864.

Major T. A. Faries will report to Major-General Polignac, commanding Second Infantry Division, for assignment to duty as chief of artillery of the division.

By command of Major-General Taylor:

J. L. BRENT,
Chief of Artillery and Ordnance, Dist. of West Louisiana.

HOUSTON, April 21, 1864.

Brigadier General H. E. McCULLOCH:

I have just received your letter inclosing Colonel Bourland's statement.* I send you Pyron's regiment cavalry and Nichols' light battery, which are all the troops I can spare, and really I cannot well

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*See p. 772.

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