HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF ARKANSAS,
Little Rock, January 7, 1865-2 p. m.

Brigadier General SHALER:

Please answer whether General Carr has left Devall's Bluff for Memphis. If he has not you will detain the boat an order can be telegraphed for him to carry.

By command of Major-General Reynolds:

JOHN LEVERING,

Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.

DEVALL'S BLUFF, ARK., January 7, 1865.

Major JOHN LEVERING,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

General Carr is still here on the Mepham, and will await orders.

ALEXANDER SHALER.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF ARKANSAS,
Little Rock, January 7, 1865.

Brigadier-General CARR:

(Care of Brigadier-General Shaler, commanding, Devall's Bluff.) Special order* for the movement of the Fifteenth Massachusetts Battery is telegraphed herewith. Major-General Reynolds directs that you will furnish same to Major-General Dana, commanding Department of Mississippi, and through him to the commanding officer of the battery.

Respectfully,

JOHN LEVERING,

Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. FIRST Brigadier, SECOND DIV.,

SEVENTH ARMY CORPS,

Numbers 1. Devall's Bluff, Ark., January 7, 1865.

By virtue of seniority the undersigned hereby assumes command of the First Brigade, Second Division, Seventh Army Corps. Existing orders will remain in force as heretofore.

W. H. GRAVES,

Colonel Twelfth Michigan Veteran Volunteer Infantry.

LEWISBURG, January 7, 1865.

Major LEVERING,

Assistant Adjutant-General, Little Rock:

Dispatches from Captain Hamilton, near Norristown, received last night. Portion of General Thayer's command is at Clarksville; expect to be at Norristown to-day or to-morrow. River not fordable at Dardanelle. Have ordered Captain Hamilton to destroy all ferry-boats and skiffs on River and return here to-morrow. His horses have all

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* See p. 445.

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