HEADQUARTERS NORTHERN DIVISION OF LOUISIANA,
Baton Rouge, La., February 17, 1865.

Brigadier General J. BAILEY:

GENERAL: Major-General Herron directs that the cavalry regiments ordered to New Orleans (viz, First Louisiana Cavalry and Second Illinois Cavalry) be got off with as little delay as possible. To this end he deems it best that the quartermaster's department take any available transportation, public or private, and desires that you will make the necessary orders.

I have the honor to be, general, your obedient servant,

WM. H. CLAPP,

Captain and Assistant Adjutant-General.

MORGANZA, February 17, 1865.

Captain W. H. CLAPP,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

In reply to your telegram of the 15th I have the honor to state that the following troops are stationed at this post: First Division, U. S. Colored Troops, composed of First and Second Brigades. First Brigade, U. S. Colored Troops, commanded by Colonel W. H. Dickey, Eighty-fourth U. S. Colored Infantry - Seventy-third, Seventy-fifth, Eighty-fourth, Ninety-second Regiments U. S. Colored Infantry. Second Brigade, U. S. Colored Troops, commanded by Colonel A. J. Edgerton, Sixty-seventh U. S. Colored Infantry - Sixty-fifth and Sixty-seventh U. S. Colored Infantry, Second New York Veteran Cavalry (Colonel M. H. Chrysler), Battery G, First Indiana Heavy Artillery, Captain B. S. Harrower. The Second New York Cavalry are under marching orders awaiting transportation.

D. ULLMANN,

Brigadier-General, Commanding.

HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF VICKSBURG,
Vicksburg, Miss., February 17, 1865.

Lieutenant Colonel C. T. CHRISTENSEN,

Asst. Adjt. General, Military Division of West Mississippi:

COLONEL: For the information of the major-general commanding Military Division of West Mississippi I have the honor to report that the troops under command of Major General A. J. Smith have arrived at this place. They have disembarked and moved to Four-Mile Bridge, east of this place, on line of Vicksburg and Jackson Railway, where they are at present encamped.

Your obedient servant,

M. L. SMITH,

Brigadier-General, Commanding.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF ARKANSAS,
Little Rock, Ark., February 17, 1865.

Lieutenant Colonel C. T. CHRISTENSEN,

Asst. Adjt. General, Mil. Div. of West Miss., New Orleans, La.:

COLONEL: Your communication directing that the Fifty-third and Sixty-sixth U. S. Colored Infantry Regiments be relieved from duty in