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HDQRS. LOUISIANA MILITIA, ADJT. GEN'S OFFICE,
I. Col. F. H. Farrar, of the Pointe Coupee Regiment; Col. J. M. Porter, of the Saint Landry Regiment, and Lieut. Col. W. F. Cheney, of the Avoyelles Regiment, will order, on receipt of this order, into active service 50 picked men from each of their regiments, to be armed with rifles. Each detachment to be placed under competent militia officers, to be selected by the colonels; these detachments to be placed at stated distances along the Atchafalaya River, and will operate on the enemy's gunboats should they attempt to pass up the river.
M. GRIVOT
SOURCE: Official Records of the War of the Rebellion, Series 1, Volume 15, pg. 857-858
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