Numbers 52, paragraph 7, headquarters Military Division of West Mississippi, is hereby announced as chief ordnance officer for the forces of this command.

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By command of Major General J. J. Reynolds:

JOHN LEVERING,

Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF, New Orleans, June 30, 1864.

Brigadier General J. W. DAVIDSON,
Chief of Cavalry, Mil. Div. of West Mississippi:

GENERAL: The following orders have been issued this day relating to cavalry: One hundred and eighteenth Illinois Mounted Infantry ordered to march to Baton Rouge at once. sixteenth Indiana, Sixth Missouri, and Eleventh New York Cavalry leave by transport this evening. The Second Maine and Twelfth Illinois Cavalry have been ordered to Donaldsonville, where transportation has been ordered to take them. The Fourteenth New York and Second Illinois Cavalry will remain at Baton Rouge. Two sections of the First Wisconsin Mounted Battery, now in this city, have been ordered to Baton Rouge at once, and transportation ordered, I see no [reason] why they should not leave to-morrow.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

N. P. BANKS,

Major-General, Commanding.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF, New Orleans, June 30, 1864.

COMMANDING OFFICER DISTRICT OF LA FOURCHE,
Thibodeaux:

SIR: You will send a commissioned officer and 30 men to protect the telegraph station opposite Donaldsonville, the troops there being ordered to Baton Rouge. You will send 1 commissioned officer and 50 men to Manning's plantation, to relieve the Eleventh New York Cavalry. Horses will be sent so soon as transportation can be furnished.

By command of Major-General Banks:

GEO. B. DRAKE,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

LITTLE ROCK, June 30, 1864-11.30 a. m.

(Received 12 m.)

General CARR:

GENERAL: I thought we might need the boats at Devall's Bluff to transport troops to cut off re-enforcements said to be en route to join Shelby. Thayer thinks Cooper is operating to prevent troops from being sent out the District of the Frontier. The rebels are in heavy force southeast of Pine Bluff. Clayton thinks they will besiege that place. Perhaps they will keep the troops shut up there until they can throw a force across the Arkansas to join Shelby, bad as such a movement might prove to them. Scouts from Browns-