Unknown to P. N. Luckett, June 17, 1863

Col. P. N. LUCKETT, Commanding Regiment :

Sir: I am instructed by Major-General Magruder to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of the 13th June, 1863, and in reply to state that the news of the enemy having crossed the Mississippi did away with the necessity of the troops from the Western Sub-District station on the Rio Grande being removed to this sub-district; and that, in consequence of this, orders were sent for them to be halted and placed in camp at a point as near the western frontier as possible (reported by Brigadier-General Bee to be threatened), as there was, and is now, a strong probability of their having to retrace their steps.

The order having failed to reach you in time for these troops (excepting your regiment) to be placed by you in camp near King’s ranch, the major-general commanding directs that you at once cause the two regiments of Woods and Buchel to be halted, and placed in camp at the first point on the route they reach at which they can subsist with certainty, and that the ranking officer take command of this as a brigade, and Colonel Buchel be made executive officer, with directions that he put this camp in good order and condition, and establish such discipline as to secure their entire efficiency in the shortest possible time.

These troops will remain in camp under the command of these officers until further orders from these headquarters, and always kept ready to take up the line of march at very short notice.

The commanding ofticer of these regiments will be directed by you to send out officers to concentrate the supplies, referred to by you, which were sent forward from the Rio Grande, and will collect them at his camp for the subsistence of his command.

In the event of the commanding officer of these troops not being able to select a good place for encampment, they may proceed as far as Columbus (which, by the way, is not desired, the major-general commanding wishing them to halt as far west as possible), and, in this event, Major Garey, quartermaster and commissary of subsistence, has been

CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.—CONFEDERATE.

directed to lay in the necessary supplies for these two regiments in addition to your own. The general directs that you remain with your regiment at Columbus, in camp, until further orders from these headquarters. You will send back a courier to Brigadier-General Bee, informing him of your position, &c., and acknowledge the receipt and execution of this order to these headquarters by the courier who bears this letter. EDMUND P. TURNER, Assistant Adjutant-General.

List of commanders of divisions, brigades, and regiments in the District of Texas, New

Mexico, and Arizona.

Major-general -…. J.B. Magruder . Headquarters, Districtof Texas, New

: Houston. Mexico,and Arizona.

Brigadier-general.. ; H. P. Bee …..-.. Headquarters, Western Sub-District

Brownsville. of Texas. DO siete sissnee s W.R. Scurry … Headquarters, Eastern Sub-District On sick leave. Houston. of Texas.

@olonel’-. ses. —- << S. P. Bankhead . San Antonio.. Post .................. Under orders to establish and command the Northern SubDistrict, by direction of Lieutenant-General Smith.

Doyeasee- wc ee X. B. Debray … Galveston …. Post and regiment Intemporarycommand cavalry. of Eastern Sub-District during absence of General Scurry. DDO Senna eieome P.N. Luckett… Fort Brown. .. Post and Third Texas} Under orders to march Infantry. his command to Kastern Sub-District. Dove atenaan ates W.R. Bradfute . CorpusChristi Post …….-……..– In charge of coast defenses west. Galveston …. Regiment field artilery. . Brownsville .. Regiment cavalry…-. En route to Eastern

H. M. Elmore … . A. M. Hobby.–.

E. J. Gurley .—

N.C. Gould

B. W. Stone….. G. W. Baylor..-. P. Hardeman …

A. Buchel……. James Duff…..

A. W. Terrell … S. M. Baird…..

Joseph Phillips.

R. R. Brown .

. Alleyton…… A. W. Spaight .. A. H. Davidson.

Galveston ….

Galveston -… Corpus Christi Hempstead … Columbus….. Dallas .-

Brenham Victona

Caricitas

Brownsville .. Navasota San Antonio..

Columbus ….

Sabine ..-. Colorado Co ..

Galveston ..-.

. Regiment cavalry…..

“Regiment cavalry ….

Regiment cavalry, Second Mounted Rifles. Regiment cavalry, infantry, and artillery.

Regiment infantry, Twentieth Texas. Regiment infantry,

Eighth Texas. Regiment cavalry, hirtieth Texas. Regiment cavalry,

Twenty-third Texas. Regiment cavalry… ..

Regiment cavalry, First Regiment Arizona Brigade.

Regiment cavalry,

irst ‘Texas Rifles.

Regiment cavalry

Regiment _ cavalry, Fourth Regiment, Arizona Brigade.

Regiment cavalry, Third Regiment Arizoua Brigade.

Battalion cavalry ….

Battalion mixed arms.

Battalion cavalry ….

Battalion infantry. …

HEADQUARTERS, Houston, Tex.. June 17, 1863.

Sub-District. Ein route for Louisiana.

En route to Northern Sub-District.

En route for Velasco.

Enroute for Louisiana.

Do. En route for Northern Sub-District.

En route for Eastern Sub-District.

Just organized. Organizing.

En route for Louisiana.

past to Galveston.

First Battalion Arizona Brigade ordered to Northern Sub-District.

Ordered to Sabine.

74 W. FLA., 8. ALA., S. MISS., L. A., TEX., N. MEX, [Cuar. XXXVIIL