HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF ARKANSAS,
Little Rock, Ark., January 10, 1865-5 p. m.

(Received 12. 15 a. m. 16th.)

Major General H. W. HALLECK,

Chief of Staff:

Yours of the 3rd instant relating to the reoccupation of Fort Smith received, and will be carried out at the earliest moment practicable.

J. J. REYNOLDS,

Major-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF ARKANSAS,

Numbers 9.
Little Rock, Ark., January 10, 1865.

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4. Major James F. Dwight, Eleventh Missouri Cavalry, is hereby appointed acting assistant inspector-general of the Cavalry Division of Seventh Corps, and will report without delay to Brigadier General J. R. West, commanding.

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By order of Major General J. J. Reynolds:

JOHN LEVERING,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. SECOND Brigadier, FIRST DIV., SEVENTH
ARMY CORPS,

Numbers 1.
Little Rock, Ark., January 10, 1865.

The following-named officer's are announced as the staff of the colonel commanding brigade: Surg. Robert Mitchell, Twenty-seventh Wisconsin Infantry Volunteers, senior surgeon; Captain P. Mulholland, Twenty-seventh Wisconsin Infantry Volunteers, acting aide-de-camp; First Lieutenant and Adjt. L. A. Duncan, Fortieth Iowa Infantry Volunteers, acting assistant adjutant-general; Second Lieutenant Michael A. Maguire, Twenty-seventh Wisconsin Infantry Volunteers, acting assisting quartermaster.

By order of John A. Garrett, colonel Fortieth Iowa Infantry Volunteers, commanding:

L. A. DUNCAN,

Lieutenant and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

WASHINGTON, D. C., January 10, 1865-2. 40 p. m.

(Via Saint Louis.)

COMMANDING OFFICER AT FAYETTEVILLE:

Lieutenant General U. S. Grant has directed that Fort Smith and adjacent posts be not evacuated if they can be supplied, and if already abandoned that they be reoccupied as early as supplies can be forwarded to them. These orders have been sent to Major General J. J. Reynolds.

H. W. HALLECK,

Major-General and Chief of Staff.

Send these forward by the very quickest possible route.

(Same to commanding officers at Fort Smith and Little Rock, Ark., via Saint Louis.)