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NEW ORLEANS, LA., August 11, 1864.
Major C. T. CHRISTENSEN,
Asst. Adjt. General, Mil. Div. of West Mississippi:
MAJOR: I have the honor to report the following-named regiments of this command as now serving under Major-General Granger, viz Sixty-seventh Indiana, Ninety-sixth Ohio, Thirty-fourth Iowa, Seventy-seventh Illinois; also Third Maryland Cavalry, dismounted. Also to report the arrival of the following troops at Morganza, La., since date of last report, viz: Eighth Illinois Volunteers, Eleventh Illinois Volunteers, Forty-sixth Illinois Volunteers, Seventy-sixth Illinois Volunteers, Thirtieth Missouri Volunteers. Aggregate present, 2,220; aggregate present and absent, 3,405. Seventh Missouri, two companies; First Kansas, one company; aggregate present, 114; aggregate present and absent, 219. One hundred and sixty-first New York. Sixth Michigan under orders to report to chief of artillery at New Orleans.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
J. J. REYNOLDS,
Major-General, Commanding.
MORGANZA, LA., August 11, 1864.
(Received 12th.)
Captain FARRINGTON,
Aide-de-Camp:
General Lee has arrived with his brigade. Brigadier-General Gordon is also here.
M. K. LAWLER,
Brigadier-General.
MORGANZA, August 11, 1864-2 p. m.
(Received 8.10 p. m. 12th.)
Major C. T. CHRISTENSEN,
Assistant Adjutant-General:
Have just arrived from White River with last brigade of my command. Find all quiet on Mississippi. Respectfully ask permission to report in person to the commanding general. Shall I disembark my command and send boats back?
GEO. H. GORDON,
Brigadier-General.
BATON ROUGE, August 12, 1864.
P. S.-The telegraph being down and the dispatch not having gone through I send it again from Baton Rouge.
GEO. H. GORDON,
Brigadier-General.
DONALDSONVILLE, August 11, 1864.
(Received 9 p. m.)
Major G. B. DRAKE,
Assistant Adjutant-General:
For the last two days the guerrillas have troubled the couriers from here to Plaquemine very much. Major Shaw reports that one of his was captured yesterday; that his cavalry force is so small that he will
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