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Page 26 LOUISIANA AND THE TRANS-MISSISSIPPI. Chapter XLVI.


HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF, On Mansfield Road, April 3, 1864.

Major-General BANKS:

GENERAL: The enemy have just advanced a small battalion of infantry, with led horses, nearly opposite our left. They have moved a body of cavalry to the road, and are running wagons from the center to the right of their line. Is not the whole matter of this stand one of saving the train? A push up the Mansfield road would capture the train and isolate the wings.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
CHAS. P. STONE,

Brigadier-General and Chief of Staff.


HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF, Steam-boat Black Hawk, off Grand Ecore, April 3, 1864.

Major General W. B. FRANKLIN,

Commanding 19th and Detach. 13th A. C., Natchitoches:

GENERAL: The major-general commanding has arrived, and would be glad to see you on board at 6 a. m. to-morrow. If you have anything of note to communicate to-night, please send by the bearer of this.

Very respectfully, I am, general, your obedient servant,

CHAS. P. STONE,

Brigadier-General and Chief of Staff.

P. S.-One hundred and ninety thousand rations are here, and considerable forage in sacks; 300,000 rations additional are at Alexandria, and are expected to-morrow.

C. P. S.

CIRCULAR.] HDQRS. 19TH A. C. AND U. S. FORCES IN W. LA.,

Natchitoches, April 3, 1864.

SIR: The general commanding directs me to inform you that boats with provisions have arrived at Grand Ecore. You will send your wagons for the necessary supplies and will instruct your chief commissary of subsistence to report in the morning to Lieutenant-Colonel Woodruff, chief commissary of subsistence, at these headquarters, for directions in reference to the quantity and manner of procuring the supplies.

Respectfully, your obedient servant,

WICKHAM HOFFMAN,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. FIRST DIV., 13TH ARMY CORPS, Numbers 26.
Matagorda Island, Tex., April 3, 1864.

In accordance with orders from headquarters Thirteenth Army Corps, the major-general commanding hereby relinquishes the command of this division to Brigadier General Fitz Henry Warren.

By command of Major General N. J. T. Dana:

B. WILSON,

Assistant Adjutant-General.


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