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ALLATOONA CREEK, GA., June 4, 1864.
General E. R. S. CANBY,
Commanding Div.of West Mississippi, via Cairo.
Your dispatch of May 26 is received. I agree with you that you can attempt nothing offensive in West Louisiana this year. Prevent, however, any of Kirby Smith's force from coming across the Mississippi; and I would like a strong feint or real attack on Mobile via Pascagoula in connection with Admiral Farragut's fleet. General A. J. Smith's division, re-enforced by troops that I can spare from Vicksburg, in all 10,000, would be sufficient. I know from prisoners taken that all the troops in Alabama are here with Johnston, and he is calling for every man from the Southwest.
W. T. SHERMAN,
Major-General, Commanding.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL., June 4, 1864. [Received Memphis, 6th.]
Major General E. R. S. CANBY, Vicksburg:
The One hundred and thirty-third [Illinois], Colonel Phillips, left here yesterday for duty at Rock Island. The One hundred and thirty-fourth left Chicago last night for Columbus. The One hundred and thirty-second will leave to-day for the same place. The One hundred and thirty-sixth, One hundred and thirty-seventh, and One hundred and thirty-ninth will leave on Monday for the same place.
ALLEN C. FULLER,
Adjutant-General.
SPECIAL ORDERS, WAR DEPT., ADJT. GENERAL'S OFFICE, No. 196. Washington, June 4, 1864.* * * * *
31. Lieutenant Colonel C. B. Hinsdill, chief commissary of subsistence, Sixteenth Army Corps, is hereby relieved from duty in that corps, and will report in person, without delay, to Major-General Canby, U. S. Volunteers, commanding Military Division of West Mississippi, for assignment to duty.
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By order of the Secretary of War:
E. D. TOWNSEND,
Assistant Adjutant-General.GENERAL ORDERS, HDQRS. MIL. DIV. OF WEST MISSISSIPPI, No. 7. Vicksburg, Miss., June 4, 1864.
The Department of the Missouri having been added to the Military Division of West Mississippi, the general orders heretofore issued from these headquarters will apply to that department, and be observed accordingly. The troops from the Departments of the Gulf,
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