SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. MIL DIV. OF WEST MISSISSIPPI, Numbers 51.
New Orleans, La., June 28, 1864.

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4. Major Brock, assistant adjutant-general, is hereby relieved from duty in the Nineteenth Army Corps, and will report without delay to Brigadier General T. W. Sherman, U. S. Volunteers, commanding Defenses of New Orleans, at New Orleans, La. The quartermaster's department will furnish the necessary transportation.

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By order of Major General E. R. S. Canby:

C. T. CHRISTENSEN,
Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF, New Orleans, June 28, 1864.

Colonel S. B. HOLABIRD,

Chief Quartermaster, Department of the Gulf:

COLONEL: The major-general commanding directs me to say that the steamship Clinton, from Texas, whit the First and Second Texas Cavalry aboard, is at quarantine, and has been ordered to proceed at once to Morganza without stopping or communicating whit this city. The officer commanding the steamer telegraphs that be cannot make the trip to Morganza without supplies and coal; that the has two bearers of dispatches on board, and that he wants a river pilot. The commanding general desires that coal, supplies, and a pilot be sent him, and that the dispatches in the possession of the two bearers of dispatches be at once brought to the city. Colonel Beckwith has received instruction concerning supplies. Please facilitate forwarding them.

I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant, GEO. B. DRAKE,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF, Numbers 170.
New Orleans, La., June 28, 1864.

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2. The Twelfth Illinois Cavalry is hereby relieved form duty in the District of La Fourche, and will proceed without delay to Greenville, La., and be reported, through the commanding officer at that point, to the chief of cavalry. The quartermaster's department will furnish the necessary transportation.

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15. The Eighteenth New York Cavalry, now at Greenville, will proceed immediately to Napoleonville, and be reported for duty to Brigadier-General Cameron, commanding District of La Fourche, to relieve the Second Maine Cavalry. The quartermaster's department will furnish the necessary transportation.

16. The Second Maine Cavalry will proceed, so soon as relieved at Napoleonville by the Eighteenth New York Cavalry, to Greenville,