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18 Series I Volume XXXIV-IV Serial 64 - Red River Campaign Part IV

Page 18 LOUISIANA AND THE TRANS-MISSISSIPPI. Chapter XLVI.

11. The Eleventh Indiana Volunteers will proceed, without delay, to Thibodeaux, and be reported for duty to Brigadier General John McNeil, commanding District of La Fourche. The quartermaster's department will furnish the necessary transportation.

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By command of Major-General Banks:

GEO. B. DRAKE,

Assistant Adjutant-General.


HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF,
New Orleans, May 24, 1864.

Brigadier General H. W. BIRGE,

Baton Rouge:

GENERAL: A division of the Thirteenth Army Corps has been ordered from the front to proceed to Baton Rouge, under the command of Brigadier General Fitz Henry Warren. Upon its arrival the First Indiana Heavy Artillery and Fourth Wisconsin Cavalry will proceed in accordance with paragraph X, Special Orders, Numbers 134, current series, from these headquarters, already forwarded. You will remain a sufficient time in Baton Rouge to give all the necessary information relating to the district to Brigadier-General Warren, and then proceed without delay to the front, and on your arrival will report to Brigadier-General Emory for duty.

I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

J. SCHUYLER CROSBY,

Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.


HEADQUARTERS DETACHMENT THIRTEENTH CORPS,
Morganza, La., May 24, 1864.

Brigadier-General McGINNIS,

Commanding Third Division:

GENERAL: You will give instant orders for the embarkment of the Forty-sixth Indiana Volunteers, of your division, on board the steamer Colonel Cowles. You will also give instructions to the commanding officer of the regiment to report for further orders to Major-General Banks as soon as he arrives at New Orleans.

By command of Brigadier General W. P. Benton:

GEO. W. STEIN,

Captain and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.


HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF,
New Orleans, May 24, 1864.

Brigadier General W. H. EMORY,

Port Hudson:

You may send General Warren, with Landram's division, Thirteenth Army Corps, to Baton Rouge on the two boats concerning which you have telegraphed. As soon as these troops are discharged at Baton Rouge, the boats to come back here. By next boats send more of Thirteenth Army Corps to Carrollton, General Lawler in command.

W. DWIGHT,

Brigadier-General and Chief of Staff.


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