strong companies Thirtieth Wisconsin, which will leave for Saint Paul to-morrow. Acknowledge receipt. Confer with General Dana whether this arrangement satisfies order of War Department.

JNO. POPE,

Major-General.

MILWAUKEE, WIS., May 31, 1864.

General SULLY,

Sioux City, via Council Bluffs:

Sibley will send you whole force originally ordered. Have replaced those he was authorized the withhold by four companies of Thirtieth Wisconsin now in this State.

JNO. POPE,

Major-General.

Telegraph operator at Council Bluffs please forward to General Sully.

Abstract from returns of the Department of the Gulf, Major General N. P. Banks, U. S. Army, commanding, for the mouth of May, 1864.

Present for duty.

Command. Officers Men Aggrega- Aggrega

te te

present present

and

absent

General headquarters 34 60 143 188

Thirteenth Army Corps

(McClernand):

Headquarters 10 .... 10 11

Troops in Texas

(Herron)*

Second Division, 81 1,594 2,140 5,241

Thirteenth Army Corps.

Attached 162 3,920 4,938 5,875

Total in Texas 243 5,514 7,078 11,116

First Division 180 3,598 4,303 7,021

(Lawler)

Third Division 95 1,792 2,131 4,579

(McGinnis)

Fourth Division 91 1,944 2,471 5,596

(Colonel F. W. Moore).

Engineers troops (W. F. 2 19 22 28

Patterson).

Total Thirteenth Army 621 12,867 16,015 28,351

Corps and attached.

Nineteenth Army Corps

(Emory):

Headquarters 6 ..... 6 13

First Division 217 5,477 6,518 9,262

(McMillan)

Second Division 154 3,892 4,800 6,376

(Grover)

Reserve Artillery 6 253 285 372

Total Nineteenth Army 383 9,622 11,609 16,023

Corps.

Pieces of artillery

Command. Heavy Field Head-

quar-

ters

General headquarters .... ..... New

Orlens,

La.

Thirteenth Army Corps

(McClernand):

Headquarters ..... ..... New

Orleans

La

Troops in Texas .... ..... Brown-

(Herron)* sville,

Tex.

Second Division, 7 16 Brown-

Thirteenth Army Corps. sville

Attached ..... 16 Brown-

sville,

Brazos

Santia-

go, and

Pass

Cavallo

Tex.

Total in Texas 7 32

First Division ..... 6 Morgan-

(Lawler) za, La

Third Division ..... 8 Do.

(McGinnis)

Fourth Division ..... 6 Baton

(Colonel F. W. Moore). Rouge,

La

Engineers troops (W. F. .... ..... Morgan-

Patterson). za, La

Total Thirteenth Army 7 52

Corps and attached.

Nineteenth Army Corps

(Emory):

Headquarters .... ..... Morgan-

za, La

First Division ..... 10 Do.

(McMillan)

Second Division ..... 10 Do.

(Grover)

Reserve Artillery ...... 14 Do.

Total Nineteenth Army .... 34

Corps.

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* On May 1, Major General Herron assumed command "of all the U. S. forces on the coast and Rio Grande frontier of Texas," and on May 5, Colonel William McE. Dye, under Herron's orders, assumed command of the forces on the Rio Grande.

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