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SPECIAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE WEST,

No. 74. Camp McIntosh, May 4, 1862.

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III. To-morrow morning the divisions of this army will move at 6 o'clock. They will be ready for action, with three days' rations, cooked. They will each take the position assigned them to-day.

By order of Major-General Earl Van Dorn:

DABNEY H. MAURY,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

Organization of the Army of the West, commanded by Major-General Earl Van Dorn, at Corinth, Miss., May 4, 1862.

JONES' DIVISION.

Major-General SAMUEL JONES, commanding.

Aggregate.

Organizations. Present. Present

and

absent.

RUST'S BRIGADE.

Brig. General ALBERT RUST, commanding.

17th Battalion Arkansas Infantry 387 627

[Lemoyne]

18th Battalion Arkansas Infantry 198 275

[McCarver]

Carroll's regiment Arkansas Infantry 411 764

Jones' battalion Arkansas Infantry 341 602

King's regiment Arkansas Infantry 575 728

Smead's regiment Arkansas Infantry 488 745

Light battery artillery ---- ----

2,400 3,741

MAURY'S BRIGADE.

Brig. General D. H. MAURY, commanding.

Adams' battalion Arkansas Infantry 561 597

McRae's regiment Arkansas Infantry 416 673

Garland's regiment Texas Infantry ---- ----

Moore's regiment Texas Infantry 840 840

--- Regiment Texas Dismounted Cavalry ---- ----

Light battery artillery ---- ----

1,817 2,110

ROANE'S BRIGADE.

Brig. General J. S. ROANE,commanding.

Williamson's battalion Arkansas Infantry 441 594

Borland's regiment Arkansas Dismounted 319 474

Cavalry

Brook's battalion Arkansas Dismounted 450 450

Cavalry

Sims' Ninth Regiment Texas Dismounted 657 869

Cavalry

Stone's regiment Texas Dismounted 803 968

Cavalry

Gaines' battery (Arkansas) artillery 73 89

2,743 3,444

Brigade cavalry 151 187

Jones' division 7,111 9,482


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