GENERAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS CHURCHILL'S DIVISION, Numbers 48.
Princeton, September 6, 1864.

I. Major J. J. Gaines, Artillery Corps, Provisional Army, C. S. having reported in obedience to paragraph I, Special Orders, Numbers 239, District of Arkansas, for assignment to duty, is hereby announced upon the staff of the major-general commanding division as chief of artillery.

By command of Brigadier-General Tappan:

B. S. JOHNSON.

Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.

HDQRS. CONFEDERATE FORCES IN NORTH. ARKANSAS.

September 7, 1864.

Colonel S. D. JACKMAN,
Commanding Brigade:

You will move with your entire command on to-morrow, the 8th instant, to Hookram, and march by easy stages. Call in all your pickets, details, and detachments and keep your men all together and well in hand. My headquarters will be at Smithville.

By command of Jo. O. Shelby, brigadier-general commanding:

J. N. EDWARDS.

Major and Assistant Inspector-General

(Same to Colonel Shanks.)

HDQRS. CONFEDERATE FORCES IN NORTH. ARKANSAS,
September 7, 1864.

Colonel A. S. DOBBIN.

Commanding Brigade;

COLONEL: You can move to-morrow morning or the next day up Black River on the east side to either Powhatan or Pocahontas. Leave a sufficient outlying picket, under a good and trusty officer, at Jacksonport to report to you everything done by the enemy. Call in all your details, detachments, and pickets, and get all your men together that is possible. General Price has ordered me to move up about Pocahontas with my entire command, and my headquarter will be to-morrow night at Smithville.

Very truly, yours,

JO. O. SHELBY.

Brigadier-General, Commanding.

HDQRS. CONFEDERATE FORCES IN NORTH. ARKANSAS.

Sulphur Rock, September 7, 1864.

Colonel A. S. DOBBIN:

COLONEL; Brigadier-General Shelby directs me to say that you can remain where you now are until Saturday, unless you prefer to move sooner. From information received he believes that General Price will certainly be here by Saturday. You will be upon your guard if you remain longer in your present location, for all pickets have been withdrawn from Searcy and West Point.

I am, colonel, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
P. R. CARRINGTON.

Captain and Assistant Inspector-General.

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