at this place and Natchez and their dependencies. The proportions of the different arms have not yet been fully determined upon, but the immediate estimates will be made for 30,000 infantry, 7,000 cavalry, and 3,000 artillery. In clothing, blouses will be estimated for instead of coats, and an extra supply of underclothing and shoes; and the estimates generally will be made for the field, omitting all articles of clothing or equipment that are not essential to the efficiency of the troops. In subsistence, bacon will be called for instead of other kinds of salted meat.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

JOHN F. S. GRAY,

Captain, Assistant Adjutant-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF, No. 139. New Orleans, La., May 28, 1864.

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7. The Fourteenth Maine Volunteers will at once proceed from Baton Rouge to Morganza, where it will be reported to Brigadier General W. H. Emory, to join General Nickerson's First Brigade, Second Division, Nineteenth Army Corps. The quartermaster's department will furnish the necessary transportation.

8. The five companies of the Twenty-second Iowa Volunteers now in New Orleans will at once proceed to Baton Rouge, and be reported for duty to Brigadier General W. P. Benton, commanding that post. The quartermaster's department will furnish the necessary transportation.

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By command of Major-General Banks:

GEO. B. DRAKE,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

HDQRS. MILITARY DIVISION OF WEST MISSISSIPPI,

OFFICE OF ASSISTANT INSPECTOR-GENERAL,

Vicksburg, Miss., May 28, 1864.

Lieutenant Colonel R. B. IRWIN,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

SIR: I have the honor to transmit herewith a copy of instructions just given to the inspector-general of your department and forwarded to him direct, by order of the major-general commanding, in order to save time.

I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

JOHN M. WILSON,

Captain, Corps of Engs., and A. I. G., Mil. Div. of W. Miss.

[Inclosure.]

HDQRS. MILITARY DIVISION OF WEST MISSISSIPPI,
OFFICER OF ASSISTANT ADJUTANT-GENERAL,

Vicksburg, Miss., May 27, 1864.

Lieutenant Colonel W. S. ABERT,

Assistant Inspector-General, Department of the Gulf:

SIR: The commanding general directs that you will immediately furnish this office with such reports, statements, &c., as are necessary to exhibit fully the present actual condition of the troops of