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1007 Series I Volume XLVIII-II Serial 102 - Powder River Expedition Part II

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HEADQUARTERS SOUTHERN DIVISION OF LOUISIANA,
New Orleans, June 27, 1865.

Brigadier General R. A. CAMERON,

Commanding District of La Fourche:

GENERAL: I am directed by the commanding general to inform You that it is not intended to concentrate the whole of the Seventy-fifth at Terre Bonne at present unless their services can be entirely dispensed with at and beyond Brashear. The order on the subject of the concentration of this regiment from these headquarters required all troops of this regiment then stationed this side of Brashear to concentrate at Terre Bonne. The object of this was to collect the scattered companies on the railroad, where their service can now be dispensed with. It was not supposed that this order would collect over three companies. As to the Rhode Island cavalry, as well as all other regiments within Your limits, they are already at Your disposal on any emergency. The idea is to keep the troops as much concentrated as possible, ready for any orders, and when any emergency calling for troops occurs they are in readiness to meet any orders given them.

I am, sir, respectfully, Your obedient servant,

WICKHAM HOFFMAN,

Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.

GENERAL HDQRS. THIRD BRIGADE, SECOND DIVISION, ORDERS,
13TH ARMY CORPS, AND POST OF GALVESTON, Numbers 1. Galveston, Tex., June 27, 1865.

Pursuant to Special Orders, Numbers 7, paragraph 1, dated headquarters District of Texas, Galveston, June 27, 1865, the undersigned hereby assumes command of the post of Galveston.

F. W. MOORE,

Colonel Eighty-third Ohio Volunteer Infantry.

GENERAL HDQRS. THIRD BRIGADE, SECOND DIVISION, ORDERS,
13TH ARMY CORPS, AND POST OF GALVESTON, Numbers 2. Galveston, Tex., June 27, 1865.

I. The following-named officers on duty at brigade headquarters are hereby assigned to duty at post headquarters, namely: First Lieutenant C. C. Morse, acting assistant adjutant-general, as post adjutant; First Lieutenant John McAndrew, acting assistant quartermaster, as post quartermaster; First Lieutenant William H. H. Rike, acting aide-de-camp; First Lieutenant John N. Coldren acting aide-de-camp.

II. Captain H. Beard, Thirtieth Missouri Volunteers, provost-marshal, having reported to these headquarters pursuant to Special Orders, Numbers 7, paragraph 2, dated headquarters District of Texas, Galveston, Tex., June 27, 1865, is hereby announced as post provost-marshal.

F. W. MOORE,

Colonel, Commanding.


HEADQUARTERS MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSOURI,
Saint Louis, Mo., June 27, 1865.

Lieutenant General U. S. GRANT:

Referring to Your dispatch of May 29 in elation to the Eighth Illinois Cavalry, they will be needed here.

JOHN POPE,

Major-General.


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