their intended point of junction is near the mouth of Heart River. Some of the Sisseton head mean have arrived at Fort Abercrombie, and given their assent to the only terms upon which they will be allowed peace.

Those desirous of a restoration of friendly relations with the Government will number probably 200 or 250 lodges, and they have been directed to go to Devil's Lake, where a place will be assigned them, and where they will receive protection from hostile Indians by the military authorities. I am busily engaged in preparations for the march of the column to join you on Bois Cache or Bordache Creek, and although the season is backward I think the grass will subsist the animals by the 1st of June, when the detachment will move from the designated point on the upper Minnesota River. Brackett's battalion has received my orders to march to Sioux City from Fort Snelling 2nd proximo, and will probably reach Sioux City by 15th, as I informed you in a previous dispatch.

H. H. SIBLEY,

Brigadier-General, Commanding.

Abstract from returns of the Department of the Gulf, Major General N. P. Banks, U. S. Army, commanding, for the month of April, 1864.*

Present for duty.

Command. Officers. Men. Aggregate

present.

General headquarters 36 45 139

Thirteenth Army Corps

(McClernand):

Headquarters 15 19 35

First Division and attached 238 4,763 6,035

troops (Warren).

Second Division and 135 2,873 3,756

attached troops (Herron).

Third Division (Cameron) 104 2,045 2,333

Fourth Division (Landram) 75 1,421 1,784

Artillery Brigade## 9 352 396

(Schwartz)

Total Thirteenth Army Corps 576 11,473 14,357

Nineteenth Army Corps

(Franklin):

Headquarters 8 - 8

First Division (Emory) 235 5,272 6,392

Second Division (Grover) 167 4,119 4,907

Artillery Reserve (Closson) 7 248 295

Total Nineteenth Army 417 9,639 11,602

Corps@

Engineer Brigade (Houston) 58 1,003 1,257

Corps d'Afrique 88 1,447 1,745

(detachment)

Army of the Tennessee 453 9,221 11,620

(detachment)

Cavalry Division// (Arnold) 253 5,003 6,210

Piec. of art.