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Page 482 LOUISIANA AND THE TRANS-MISSISSIPPI. Chapter XLVI.


SPECIAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS U. S. FORCES, Numbers 1.
Morganza, La., June 21, 1864.

1. The Twelfth Connecticut Volunteers will proceed without delay to Morganza and report to the commanding officer of the Nineteenth Corps for assignment to the Second Brigade, First Division, of that corps.

2. The Twelfth Maine Volunteers will proceed without delay to Morganza and report to the commanding officer of the Nineteenth Corps for assignment to the First Brigade, Second Division, of that corps. The quartermaster's department will furnish transportation.

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By command of Major General J. J. Reynolds:

JOHN LEVERING,
Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.

HDQRS. MILITARY DIVISION OF WEST MISSISSIPPI,

New Orleans, La., June 21, 1864.

Brigadier General W. H. EMORY,

Commanding at Morganza, La.:

General Banks is the legal commander of the Nineteenth Corps I have recommended that another (General Reynolds) be designated by the President. The decision of the question will probably reach here soon after the expedition commences its movement, and the answer to your application somewhat earlier. Your service with the command would be entirely satisfactory to General Reynolds and myself, but any charge in the organization of an expedition of so much importance, and after it had commenced its work, would be embarrassing. I give you these reasons for your consideration. I appreciate your fellings fully, and if you desire it I will cancel the order of leave and assign you to a command when the change can be made with less embarrassment.

ED. R. S. CANBY,

Major-General, Commanding.


HDQRS. MILITARY DIVISION OF WEST MISSISSIPPI,
New Orleans, La., June 21, 1864.

Brigadier General W. H. EMORY,

Morganza, La.:

Your dispatch has been received and answered by mail. General Reynolds will leave to-morrow for Morganza. I will not be able to go there for several days.

ED. R. S. CANBY,

Major-General, Commanding.

MORGANZA, LA., June 21, 1864-1.20 a. m.

Captain DE WITT CLINTON:

Eighteen hundred colored troops from Port Hudson, under Colonel Gaskill, reached here last night. I have sent off Dickey's bri-


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