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Kilby Smith, to whose courtesy I am indebted for all the official information I have received of this part of the expedition, mentions with commendation Major D. C. Houston, of the engineers, who had in charge the ordnance stores, and Lieutenant-Colonel W. S. Abert, officers of my staff who accompanied him, also officers and men of his own command, and the masters of transport steamers. General Smith, who commanded the land forces and transports, is entitled to the highest commendation, for they determination. It was not, however, until the entire fleet was free,--transports and gunboats,--and that Admiral Porter, in charge of the Eastport, which had been aground several miles below Grand Ecore for several days, sent me word by Colonel W. S. Abert--whose statement is hereto appended — that she was clear, and further protection unnecessary, that orders were given, the twenty-first April, to turn the supply trains in the direction of Alexandria. The army moved on the morning of the t