rations on their persons. You will please order all rations which may remain unissued at the landing at the time of your departure to be loaded on and brought along by your supply train.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

P. JOS. OSTERHAUS,

Chief of Staff.

HDQRS. ARMY AND DIVISION OF WEST MISSISSIPPI,
Camp at Deer Park, ten Miles above Dannelly's Mills,

March 25, 1865 - 1 p. m.

Major General GORDON GRANGER,

Commanding Thirteenth Army Corps:

The major-general commanding directs that your order General Veatch's division to this place by the road taken by General McArthur's division (First), Sixteenth Army Corps. The balance of the corps will follow under your command immediately afterward.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

P. JOS. OSTERHAUS,

Major-General and Chief of Staff.

HEADQUARTERS THIRTEENTH ARMY CORPS,
Dannelly's Mills, March 25, 1865.

Major General E. R. S. CANBY,

Commanding Army:

GENERAL: I have just received a dispatch from Colonel Bertram. He is six miles out and has met no opposition. The roads are fair. Plenty of beef-cattle have been found. He was pushing on when the courier left.

Respectfully, your obedient servant,

G. GRANGER,

Major-General, Commanding.

HEADQUARTERS THIRTEENTH ARMY CORPS,
Dannelly's Mills, Ala., March 25, 1865.

Brigadier General JAMES C. VEATCH,

Commanding First Division:

GENERAL: By direction of the major-general commanding you will without delay move your command out, following the Sixteenth Army Corps and closing up upon that command.

Respectfully, your obedient servant,

F. W. EMERY,

Captain and Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS THIRTEENTH ARMY CORPS,
Dannelly's Mills, Ala., March 25, 1865.

Brigadier General J. C. VEATCH,

Commanding First Division:

GENERAL: The major-general commanding directs that the Thirtieth Missouri Infantry remain at this point to guard the bridge and sup