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HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF THE FRONTIER,
Fort Smith, Ark., October 8, 1864.Colonel S. H. WATTLES,
Commanding Indian Brigade:
SIR: Your dispatches of October 4, 10 a. m. were received here October 5 at 2 p. m. Find out the position of the enemy if you can and inform me. My scouts sent in the direction of Perryville have not returned.
Very respectfully,
JNO. M. THAYER,
Brigadier-General, Commanding.
HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF THE FRONTIER,
Fort Smith, Ark., October 8, 1864.Colonel S. H. WATTLES,
Commanding Indian Brigade:
SIR: General Steele has again ordered me to send the Eleventh U. S. Colored Infantry, Lieutenant-Colonel Steele commanding, to Little Rock, and will send in return the Second Arkansas Infantry. You will, therefore, upon the arrival of the refugee train, under Lieutenant Colonel Campbell, Sixth Kansas Cavalry, send the Eleventh Colored to this place, directing Lieutenant-Colonel Steele to escort here Captain Durbin's train, which goes to Fort Gibson after the corn stored there.
Very respectfully,
JOHN M. THAYER,
Brigadier-General, Commanding.
SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DISTRICT OF THE FRONTIER, Numbers 167.
Fort Smith, Ark., October 8, 1864.I. Colonel S. J. Crawford, Second Kansas Colored Infantry, having received sixty days' leave of absence from the War Department, is relieved from command of detachment of Second Brigade, Frontier Division, Seventh Army Corps.
II. Colonel John E. Cone, Fifty-fourth U. S. Colored Infantry, will, upon receipt of this order, assume command of the detachment Second Brigade, Frontier Division, Seventh Army Corps, stationed at Fort Smith, Ark.
By command of Brigadier General J. M. Thayer:
T. J. ANDERSON,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF VICKSBURG,Natchez, Miss., October 8, 1864-6 a. m.
Lieutenant Colonel C. T. CHRISTENSEN,
Asst. Adjt. General, Military Div. of West Mississippi:
The dispatch of the major-general commanding, in cipher, of the 29th ultimo reached me through the U. S. military telegraph at Vicksburg only this moment. It reached Vicksburg at 9 a. m. yester-
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