Dwight. I have this moment learned from a citizen that a part of Major-'s force has crossed the Atchafalaya at Morgan's Ferry, and is yet crossing. their pickets are now within 8 miles of this place. I shall send out in the morning to find them if there.

I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

W. H. EMORY,

Brigadier-General, Commanding.

Major GEORGE B. DRAKE,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

ADDENDA.

Special field return of the First Division, Nineteenth Army Corps, commanded by Brigadier General William H. Emory, U. S. Volunteers, after the action of April 9, 1864, at Pleasant Hill, La.

Killed. Wounded. Miss-

Troops. Officers. Men. Officers. Men. Officers.

First Division:

Infantry.. 6 43 18 261 3

Artillery.. ... 4 1 14 1

Aggregate.. 6 47 19 275 4

ing. Effective strength next day.

Troops. Men. Total. Officers. Men. Total.

First Division:

Infantry.. 369 689 243 4,802 5,045

Artillery.. 5 25 8 331 330

Aggregate.. 374 714 251 5,133 5,384

HEADQUARTERS, April 13, 1864.

W. B. FRANKLIN,
Major-General, Commanding.

WICKHAM HOFFMAN,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. NINETEENTH ARMY CORPS, Numbers 48.
Simsport, La., May 18, 1864.

Soldiers of the First and Second Divisions, Nineteenth Army Corps! It is my duty to express to you my high appreciation of your uniform good conduct throughout the late eventful campaign. This duty is rendered more imperative by the false reports of your operations which hav met you at this point. On the 8th of April, at the first notice that our troops in the front were engaged, the First Division, the only troops of the Nineteenth Corps there present, marched in double-quick time 7 miles to the front, formed line of battle under fire of the enemy, checked him, and drove him back, under circumstances the most trying that could befall troops. The whole advance, composed of 8,000 or 10,000 troops, were thrown back upon you un utter disorder and confusion, pell-mell with the enemy. Your formed line of battle under fire of the enemy, and amidst this frightful disorder, with the regularity of forming for parade, you drove the enemy from before you, and held the ground until ordered to fall back. The next day at Pleasant Hill you of the First Division bore the brunt of the enemy's furious attack, and only one brigade, that on the left, gave way, because its left was unsupported;but this soon rallied and joined in the final charge which drove the enemy from the field. On the 23rd, at Cane River, you, supported by the Thirteenth Army Corps, found the enemy strongly posted to dispute the crossing of the river. Led by the Third Brigade of the