HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF ARKANSAS,

Little Rock, Ark., September 10, 1864.

Brigadier General E. A. CARR,

Commanding District of Little Rock, Little Rock, Ark.:

GENERAL: The major-general commanding directs that your order all dismounted cavalry in your district, with the exception of those belonging to General Clayton, to report immediately for duty to Brigadier-General Andrews at Devall's Bluff. Detachments of these men from different regiments will be sent in charge of the proper number of commissioned officers.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

WM. D. GREEN,

Lieutenant-Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DISTRICT OF LITTLE ROCK, No. 72. Little Rock, Ark., September 10, 1864.

I. The Second Arkansas Infantry and the Third Arkansas Cavalry will report to the commanding officer at Huntersville and encamp at that place upon their arrival from Lewisburg.

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By order of Brigadier General E. A. Carr:

C. H. DYER,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

HDQRS. SECOND DIVISION, SEVENTH ARMY CORPS,

Devall's Bluff, September 10, 1864-10.30 a.m.

Captain D. H. DYER,

Assistant Adjutant-General, Little Rock:

A loyal citizen, living seven miles out, reports that three men passed there at 7 o'clock this morning, claiming to be couriers of General Shelby. They said Shelby had ordered all detachments to assemble at Batesville to-day. If I can raise a few men at Remount Camp, I shall send out for them. I think it prejudicial to the service in every way that nearly all the time my force is so extremely small.

Very respectfully,

C. C. ANDREWS,

Brigadier-General, Commanding.

HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF LITTLE ROCK,
Little Rock, Ark., September 10, 1864.

COMMANDING OFFICER FIRST MISSOURI CAVALRY:

You will proceed upon the Arkansas River, on the north side, to the relief of the steamers Chippewa and Carrie Jacobs, now aground about thirty-five miles above here by water, twenty-fire by land. It is not deemed probable that any large force of the enemy will attack them, but there may be several hundred bushwhackers or other irregulars. The boats have each one infantry guard of the Twenty-ninth Iowa, and one of them, supposed to be the Chippewa, has a howitzer. Should it be found impossible to get them off, and should the enemy appear to be in dangerous proximity, the troops will be taken off and the stores destroyed, but the boats will not be destroyed. It is important to bring the soldiers and the gun off. If the gun cannot be brought off, it must