THE WAR OF THE REBELLION: A COMPILATION OF THE OFFICIAL RECORDS OF THE UNION AND CONFEDERATE ARMIES. PREPARED BY The late Lieut. Col. ROBERT N. SCOTT, Third U. S. Artillery. PUBLISHED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF The Hon. REDFIELD PROCTOR, Secretary of War, BY MAJ. GEORGE B. DAVIS, U. S. A., MR. LESLIE J. PERRY, MR. JOSEPH W. KIRKLEY, Board of Publication. SERIES I-VOLUME XXXIV—IN FOUR PARTS. PART II-CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. WASHINGTON: GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE. 1891. PART II.-VOL. XXXIV. CORRESPONDENCE, ORDERS, AND RETURNS RELATING TO OPERATIONS IN LOUISIANA AND THE TRANS-MISSISSIPPI STATES AND TERRITORIES, FROM JANUARY 1, 1864, TO MARCH 31, 1864.* UNION CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF, Major-General W. B. FRANKLIN, Comdg. Troops in Western Louisiana, New Iberia: GENERAL: You will please order the Twelfth Connecticut Regiment to New Orleans, in accordance with your recommendation. It will be reported to the commander of the Defenses of New Orleans, By command of Major-General Banks : CHAS. P. STONE, Brigadier-General and Chief of Staff. Maj. Gen. N. P. BANKS, HEADQUARTERS U. S. FORCES, Fort Esperanza, Tex., January 1, 1864. Commanding Department of the Gulf: GENERAL: Your dispatch of the 24th ultimo was received three days ago. I am glad to know that all is being done that is possible toward forwarding troops and munitions of war. The complaint of the quartermaster that the transports are detained here is groundless. A boat is seldom detained here over two days, unless the weather is too bad to go to sea. That you may understand where the delay is, I state that the steamer Alabama left here for New Orleans on the 17th instant [ultimo], and the Saint Mary's, Continental, Blackstone, and De Molay on the 18th. The Saint Mary's and De Molay returned on the evening of the 29th instant [ultimo], being absent eleven days, six or seven of which must have been in New Orleans; the other boats, though absent fourteen days, have not yet returned. The De Molay arrived just at night, too late to light her, and during the night Including Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Indian Territory, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, and Texas, and the Department of the Northwest, embracing Dakota, Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. For Union and Confederate Correspondence from April 1, 1864, to June 30, 1864, see Part III. (3) |