Lieutenant Colonel John A. Rawlins to Major-General Edward O. C. Ord, June 19, 1863

[June 19, 1863.]

There is a partially organized regiment of Colored troops in your corps. Please order them together with their women and children to proceed at once to Chickasaw Bayou Landing, where they will go into Camp and furnish such details for fatigue duty as may be required in the Commissary, Ordnance and Quartermaster's Department at that place; and at the same time complete their organization.

SOURCE: John Y. Simon, Editor, The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant, Volume 8, p. 398

Major-General Edward O. C. Ord to Major-General Ulysses S. Grant, June 19, 1863—8:30 p.m.

[June 19, 1863—8:30 p.m.]

Capt Haines reports that the fourth Miss [Coloured] is very necessary working by day in the trenches Cannot I keep them for that work a few days longer & thus save the men of other regts.

SOURCE: John Y. Simon, Editor, The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant, Volume 8, p. 398