Lewisburg and sixty tons to Clarksville will be sufficient, and if it can be done forty tons should be sent here. If this place is not to be evacuated, I respectfully request that boats be sent up with a supply of subsistence, forage, quartermaster's stores, and medical supplies. In either event, evacuation or no evacuation, I beg that boats will be sent.

Very respectfully, &c.,

JOHN M. THAYER,

Brigadier-General, Commanding.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF ARKANSAS,
Little Rock, Ark., January 9, 1865.

Major General G. M. DODGE,

Commanding Department of the Missouri:

GENERAL: I am in receipt of your letter to headquarters Military Division of West Mississippi of December 11, 1864,* in relation to sending through our lines certain people from Missouri, with indorsement to the effect that they will be passed through at this point. It will be very inconvenient to pass them through the lines at this place. I propose to pass them through at Gaines' Landing, on the Mississippi River. Any orders or permits from your headquarters will be approved, without delaying the parties, by the commanding officer at the mouth of the White River, and the landing can be made at Gaines' Landing. Please direct parties whom you send South in future to report at mouth of White River.

Very respectfully, &c.

J. J. REYNOLDS,

Major-General.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSOURI,
January 9, 1865.

Major HANNAHS,

Actg. Asst. Adjt. General, District of Saint Louis:

I desire you to keep concentrated as much as possible the Thirty-ninth Missouri Infantry, that they can drill, as I desire to send them into South Missouri as soon as possible. The Seventeenth Illinois Cavalry has been ordered into your district.

G. M. DODGE,

Major-General.

HEADQUARTERS SAINT LOUIS DISTRICT,
Saint Louis, January 9, 1865.

Colonel ROGERS,

Cape Girardeau:

You will put both the infantry companies and the cavalry company now at Caruthersville at Bloomfield, and not send the cavalry to Paterson, as directed in the department order.

By order of Brigadier-General Ewing:

H. HANNAHS,

Major and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

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*See Vol. XLI, Part IV, p. 829.

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