HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF CAIRO,
Cairo, Ill., May 1, 1864.

Cairo, Ill.:

122nd Illinois Infantry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 615

Paducah, Ky.:

7th Minnesota Infantry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 551

1st Kentucky Heavy Artillery (colored). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

Staff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

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Total. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 876

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Columbus, Ky.:

Staff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

34th New Jersey Volunteers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

10th Minnesota Infantry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473

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Total infantry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 660

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3rd U. S. Artillery (colored). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 736

Battery G, Second Illinois Light Artillery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

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Total artillery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 821

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Island No. 10, Tenn.:

34th New Jersey Volunteers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

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Grand total. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,062

The above is a statement of the troops of my command and numbers "for duty. "

HENRY PRINCE,

Brigadier-General of Volunteers.

INDIANAPOLIS, IND., May 2, 1864-1 p. m.

(Received 4. 30 p. m.)

Honorable EDWIN M. STANTON,

Secretary of War:

The difficulty with the cavalry regiments is settled to universal satisfaction by consolidating the mounted men, leaving the others to serve as infantry, till the Government can provide horses. The consolidation will be made at Nashville. The five regiments, 5,500 strong, number 1,200 mounted men. These will be organized either as three detached battalions or as one regiment, as may prove expedient. Two regiments have left and one (the Thirteenth) reached Nashville this morning. Two more leave to-morrow, the last leaves Thursday. The footmen are armed with Enfield rifles, mounted men with sabers only. The latter expect to receive carbines and pistols at Nashville. I return immediately.

C. A. DANA.

HDQRS. MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI,
Nashville, Tenn., May 2, 1864.

Captain PENNOCK,

U. S. Navy, Cairo, Ill.:

SIR: Some days since a remonstrance made by the river pilots against the operations of General Orders, No. 4* (from these headquarters,

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*See Vol. XXXII, Part II, p. 346.

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