GENERAL ORDERS HEADQUARTERS, DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF, 19TH ARMY CORPS, No. 56. New Orleans, August 4, 1863. I. Colonel N. A. M. DUDLEY, 30th Massachusetts Volunteers, is announced as Acting Assistant Inspector General at these Headquarters, and will be obeyed and respected accordingly. II. Commanding officers will send their despatches to these Headquarters by reliable orderlies. III. One sergeant and fourteen privates, to be detailed from the 14th New York Cavalry, will be allowed to each Division, for duty as mounted orderlies. All other orderlies belonging to the mounted service, now serving at Division, Brigade or Regimental Headquarters, will forthwith be returned to their proper regiments and companies. Commanders of Divisions, detached Brigades, and Districts, will immediately forward to these Headquarters complete descriptive rolls of the mounted orderlies serving with their respective commands. IV. Captain THOMAS H. ANNABLE, 26th Massachusetts Volunteers, is announced as Acting Assistant Commissary of Musters for the De:ences of New Orleans, instead of Major CHARLES J. VON HERMANN, Additional Aide-de-Camp, whose detail, published in General Orders No. 54, current series, has been recalled. BY COMMAND OF MAJOR GENERAL BANKS: OFFICIAL: RICHARD B. IRWIN, Assistant Adjutant General. Acting Assistant Adjutant General. GENERAL ORDERS HEADQUARTERS, DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF, 19TH ARMY CORPS, No. 57. New Orleans, August 5, 1863. The Commanding General takes great pleasure in communicating to the troops of this Department, the contents of the following despatch, this day received from the General-in-Chief: MAJOR GENERAL BANKS, New Orleans. HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, Washington, July 23, 1863. Ι General ;-Your despatches of July 8th, announcing the surrender of Port Hudson, are received. congratulate you and your army on the crowning success of the campaign. It was reserved for your army to strike the last blow to open the Mississippi river. The country, and especially the Great West, will ever remember with gratitude their services. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, H. W. HALLECK, General-in-Chief." BY COMMAND OF MAJOR GENERAL BANKS: RICHARD B. IRWIN, Assistant Adjutant General. OFFICIAL: Acting Assistant Adjutant General. |