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HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF,
Grand Ecore, April 18, 1864.Brigadier General A. J. SMITH,
Commanding Detachment Sixteenth and Seventeenth Corps:
GENERAL: The major-general commanding directs that, in view of future operations, you will immediately send to Vicksburg for a sufficient number of wagons with teams for the movement of your command.
Very respectfully, general, your obedient servant,
W. DWIGHT,
Brigadier-General and Chief of Staff.
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF,
Grand Ecore, April 18, 1864.Brigadier General A. J. SMITH,
Commanding Detachment Sixteenth and Seventeenth Corps:
The major-general commanding thinks that nothing need be done toward having your transportation brought from Kentucky.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
GEO. B. DRAKE,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
SPECIAL ORDERS, HDQRS. DETACH. 16TH AND 17TH A. C., Numbers 24.
On Steamer Clara Bell, April 18, 1864.III. The following-named transports will, as soon as notified by the respective commanding officers of troops they have carried that their equipage, stores, & c., are in readiness to move, drop down below the pontoon bridge, landing on the right bank of the river, and report to Colonel Chandler, chief quartermaster, Nineteenth Army Corps, for a guard to accompany them down the river: Southwester, Adriatic, Emerald, Liberty, Thomas E. Tutt, Sioux City, and Mars. The regiments heretofore on said boats will leave on the boats all surplus baggage, camp and garrison equipage, and stores not needed for an active field campaign, under a sufficient guard to prevent it from being stolen.
By order of Brigadier General A. J. Smith:
J. HOUGH,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
HEADQUARTERS THIRTEENTH ARMY CORPS,Pass Cavallo, Tex., April 18, 1864.
Brigadier-General WARREN,
Commanding First Division:
GENERAL: In view of the reduced force left on this island it may become necessary, in order to guard against untoward contingencies, to change the arrangement of camps and the disposition of forces on the same. Of course you will be at liberty to exercise your best
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