HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF ARKANSAS,
Little Rock, January 24, 1865.

Brigadier-General CARR,

Pine Bluff, Ark.:

Your dispatch received. Suggestions for operations appear feasible and are approved.

By command of Major-General Reynolds.

JOHN LEVERING,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HDQRS. MILITARY DIVISION OF WEST MISSISSIPPI,
New Orleans, La., January 24, 1865.

Major General N. J. T. DANA,

Commanding Department of Mississippi, Memphis, Tenn.:

SIR: I am directed by the major-general commanding to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of the 16th instant, referring to the organization of a cavalry expedition in accordance with his orders of the 21st ultimo, and to say that the plan proposed by you meets with his full approval. The commanding general's views in relation to the property of the rebels (either Government or private), whenever met with on expedition of this character, accords with your own views. Whenever it is impracticable to capture and transport it it will invariably be destroyed.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

C. T. CHRISTENSEN,

Lieutenant-Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DISTRICT OF NATCHEZ, Numbers 4.
Natchez, Miss., January 24, 1865.

The lines of actual occupation by the military forces of the United States in this district are hereby defined to be within the picket-lines of the posts of Natchez, Vidalia, and Bullit's Bayou, the public woodyards, freedman's camps, and plantations which have been leased by the Government and are worked by freedmen employed under the regulations of the Treasury Department, by agreement heretofore entered into and now on record in said Department. Beyond these lines no supplies whatever can go, extent as is indicated in paragraph 7, General Orders, Numbers 80, series of 1864, headquarters Military Division of West Mississippi.

By order of Brigadier General J. W. Davidson:

B. F. MOREY,

Captain and Assistant Adjutant-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS CAVALRY DIVISION, Numbers 11.
Memphis, January 24, 1865.

I. The Eleventh New York Cavalry and Twelfth Illinois Cavalry, having reported to these headquarters for duty, are hereby designated as the Second Brigade, Cavalry Division, Department of Mississippi, and the senior officer, Lieutenant Colonel H. B. Dox, Twelfth Illinois Cavalry, will assume command of the same.