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MORGANZA, LA., June 11, 1864.
Colonel THOMAS,
Commanding Eighth Vermont:
COLONEL: The commanding general directs me to say that he cannot believe that there are more than 100 guerrillas at Waterloo. You will therefore go down accompanied by the gun-boats, land, and attack the town with vigor by daylight. If it should turn out on getting there that the report is false, you will not land your command or any part of it.
I am, sir, respectfully,
FREDERICK SPEED,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF, Numbers 153.
New Orleans, La., June 11, 1864.* * * * *
20. Paragraph 10 of Special Orders, Numbers 134, current series, from these headquarters, reorganizing the Third Division, Nineteenth Army Corps, is hereby suspended. Regiments arriving at Morganza under that order will be reported for duty to the commanding officer Second Division, Nineteenth Army Corps. A third division will be formed of other troops.
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By command of Major-General Banks:
GEO. B. DRAKE,
Assistant Adjutant-General.NEW ORLEANS, LA., June 11, 1864.
General ROBERTS:
Orders have just issued for the Sixteenth Indiana and Eighth Indiana Volunteers to go to La Fourche District. Instruct the commanding officers of the regiments to be in readiness for the movement.
By command of Major-General Reynolds:
JOHN LEVERING,
Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.
HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF CARROLLTON,
Carrollton, La., June 11, 1864.Major J. LEVERING,
Asst. Adjt. General, Hdqrs. Defenses of New Orleans:
MAJOR: I have the honor to state, for the information of the major-general commanding the defenses, my conviction that the grounds in and about Kenner are much better adapted to the purposes of temporary camps than any in or about New Orleans, Jefferson, or Carrollton. The drainage is better, and I doubt not the health of troops would be better. Convenient access to timber would enable all troops to cover themselves with shade, by the construction of arbors, at little labor. I have examined the ground there myself,
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