HEADQUARTERS, &C.,
Houston, May 6, 1864.

Brigadier-General BOGGS:

I have only 2,500 men that can be put in the field. The new troops organizing are mostly without arms. A cargo, said to be 1,000, arrived yesterday. Can I use them?

P. O. HEBERT,

Brigadier-General, Commanding.

HOUSTON, May 6, 1864.

Major General J. B. MAGRUDER,

Shreveport:

No landing of troops at Calcasieu. Two gun-boats over the Calcasieu bar and in the river. Griffin was to attack them this morning at daylight.

P. O. HEBERT,

Brigadier-General, Commanding.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF TEXAS, &C., No. 127. Houston, May 6, 1864.

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VIII. Brigadier General T. F. Drayton, having reported at these headquarters in obedience to orders from department headquarters, is hereby assigned to the command of the districts commanded by Colonel J. Bates and Lieutenant Colonel O. Steele. He will establish his headquarters at Columbus, Tex.

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By command of Major-General Magruder:

E. P. TURNER,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
ADJT. AND INSP. GENERAL'S OFFICE, No. 107. Richmond, May 7, 1864.

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XXIII. Captain A. W. Slayback, assistant adjutant-general, will proceed without delay to Trans-Mississippi Department and report to General E. K. Smith, commanding, for assignment to duty.

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By command of the Secretary of War:

JNO. WITHERS,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

CAMDEN, May 7, 1864.

Governor HENRY W. ALLEN,

Governor of Louisiana:

MY DEAR SIR: I received to-day your kind note from Shreveport. I had already determined upon and given the necessary orders for the movement of troops to Alexandria. Having crippled Steele and thrown it out of his power to assume the offensive [in] this campaign, I with not one day's delay turned the heads of columns southward with the purpose of enabling Taylor to drive Banks