SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF, Numbers 137.
New Orleans, La., May 26, 1864.

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3. Upon the arrival at New Orleans of the Ninety-sixth U. S. Infantry, colored, it will at once proceed to Port Hudson and be reported for duty to Brigadier General Daniel Ullmann, commanding the U. S. forces at that post. 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.

HDQRS. U. S. TROOPS AND NINETEENTH ARMY CORPS,

Morganza, La., May 26, 1864.

Memorandum of information obtained from a lieutenant of the rebel forces, captured May 23, 1864, in attempting to pass our lines from the opposite side of the river: Force on Tunica Bend consists of Eighth Battalion Louisiana Heavy Artillery (Major Ogden), 500 men and four rifled guns. Colonel Gober is sent by General Polk's order to take command of this force, with two more companies. All the force between here and Vicksburg is 3,000 cavalry, under General Adams. General Maury, at Mobile, has sent all but 6,000 or 7,000 men and his siege artillery to Dalton; twenty-seven car-loads left May 1. General Polk has Adams, Forrest, French, and Loring under his command. His command is called the Third Division; is 30,000 strong. Polk is on Johnston's left. About 20,000 have left to re-enforce Maury at Dalton, and 10,000 are at and about Camp Moore, &c. Slaughter and Tilghman went with Polk to Dalton.

W. H. EMORY,

Brigadier-General, Commanding.

PORT HUDSON, May 26, 1864.

Brigadier-General DWIGHT,

Chief of Staff, New Orleans:

The rebels are reported to be in some force on the Baton Rouge road; stated to have five or six pieces of artillery, but with not much ammunition. Two companies of cavalry have been seen this afternoon on the right bank of the river. Is it probable that we have any detachments in that direction?

DANIEL ULLMANN,

Brigadier-General, Commanding.

HEADQUARTERS DEFENSES OF NEW ORLEANS,
New Orleans, La., May 26, 1864.

Brigadier General WILLIAM DWIGHT,

Chief of Staff:

GENERAL: The return of the department commander to New Orleans may cause doubts as to my authority to send any orders to the La Fourche District and Baton Rouge or Port Hudson. (See Field Orders, Numbers 3, headquarters Department of the Gulf, Alex-