HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND,
Eastport, Miss., January 15, 1865-12 m.

Major General E. R. S. CANBY,

New Orleans:

I have just arrived at this place and have as yet no definite information as to what orders I shall have nor what I am expected to do. As soon as I receive orders, and the road will permit of any movements being made, I will at once inform you, giving you timely notice, so as to enable you to co-operate with me.

GEO. H. THOMAS,

Major-General, U. S. Army, Commanding.

HDQRS. MILITARY DIVISION OF WEST MISSISSIPPI,
New Orleans, La., January 15, 1865.

Major General S. A. HURLBUT,

Commanding Department of the Gulf, New Orleans, La.:

SIR: I am instructed by the major-general commanding to request that you will give orders to prohibit the issuing of permits and safe conducts for the shipments of products of insurrectionary districts from Waterproof and Saint Joseph, La.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

C. T. CHRISTENSEN,

Lieutenant-Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.

(Same to Major General N. J. T. Dana, commanding Department of Mississippi, Memphis, Tenn. ; General Davidson, and the commanding officer Sixth Naval District, between Natchez and Vicksburg.)

GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. 4TH Brigadier, RESERVE CORPS,

MIL. DIV. OF WEST MISSISSIPPI,

Numbers 3.
Camp, Kennerville, La., January 15, 1865.

I. O. S. Lake, first lieutenant and adjutant Twentieth Iowa Volunteers, and acting assistant adjutant-general, Fourth Brigade, Reserve Corps, Military Division of West Mississippi, is relieved from duty at these headquarters and will report for duty to his regiment.

II. Samuel A. Walling, captain Company I, One hundred and sixty-first New York Volunteers, is relieved from duty with his company and regiment and is assigned to duty at these headquarters as acting assistant adjutant-general.

CHARLES BLACK,

Colonel Thirty-seventh Illinois Infantry, Commanding Brigade.

LITTLE ROCK, January 15, 1865.

General A. SHALLER,

Devall's Bluff:

My dispatches for Colonel Geiger will reach you in half an hour. Please send them as soon as you receive them.

J. R. WEST,

Brigadier-General.