CULPEPER, VA., April 15, 1864-11 p. m. (Received 12.10 a.m., 16th.)

Major General H. W. HALLECK,

Chief of Staff:

Please send General Hunter to report to me. From the last dispatches from Major-General Banks, I fear he is going to be late in his spring movement, and I am desirous of sending and officer of rank with duplicates of his orders, and with further instructions.

U. S. GRANT,

Lieutenant-General.

NASHVILLE, TENN., April 15, 1864-10 a.m. (Received 3.15 p. m.)

Lieutenant General U. S. GRANT,

Culpeper, Va.:

I have a dispatch from Little Rock of April 10, giving dates from General Steele of April 7, at Camden. He had had considerable skirmishing, in all of which he was successful, and had halted and sent back to Pine Bluff for provisions and ammunition. It seems to me his movement is very slow, and he may be so late in reaching Red River as to keep Generals Banks and A. J. Smith away behind time.

W. T. SHERMAN,

Major-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF, Numbers 97.
New Orleans, La., April15, 1864.

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6. The Third Battalion, Fourteenth Rhode, Island Heavy Artillery, Lieutenant Colonel Nelson Viall commanding, just arrived from the North, will be reported to Major-General Reynolds, commanding Defenses of New Orleans.

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By command of Major-General Banks:

RICHD. B. IRWIN,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS, Baton Rouge, La., April 15, 1864.

Major General J. J. REYNOLDS,

Commanding, New Orleans, La.:

Nothing certain. A boat down last night reported nothing. Some cannot firing heard about 6 p. m. yesterday.

P. ST. GEO. COOKE,

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

CONFIDENTIAL.] WASHINGTON, D. C., April 15, 1864.

Lieutenant-General GRANT,

Culpeper, Va.:

GENERAL: I inclose herewith a telegram* just received from General Kimball, commanding at Little Rock. When the Departments of Kansas and Arkansas were formed, I advised that the Indiana Ter-

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*See Kimball to Halleck, April 7, p. 79.

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