possible. On reaching that place the command now held by Major-General Parsons will be turned over to you. Please report promptly your arrival and assumption of command. This is forwarded to you via Hamburg by swift courier.

I am, general very respectfully, your obedient servant,

ED. P. TURNER,

Lieutenant-Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS,
Camden, September 17, 1864.

Major General C. J. POLIGNAC, Commanding, &c.:

GENERAL: I am instructed by Major-General Magruder, commanding district, to acknowledge receipt of your communication of the 15th instant and in reply to say that you will order Colonel Harrison to proceed with his cavalry brigade as rapidly as possible to Monticello, with instructions to send a courier ahead announcing his approach to Major-General Wharton at Monticello, Ark., reporting by same to Major-General Wharton, by whose instructions he will be governed.

I am, general, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

ED. P. TURNER,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS CHURCHILL'S DIVISION,
Monticello, September 17, 1864.

Brigadier-General DOCKERY:

GENERAL: Major-General Churchill directs that you keep constantly on hand from five to ten days' rations of meal for your whole command, in order that you will be prepared to move at any moment.

I am, general, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

B. S. JOHNSON,

Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.

(Same to General Hawthorn.)

HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF INDIAN TERRITORY,
Fort Towson, C. N., September 17, 1864.

Brigadier General W. R. BOGGS,

Chief of Staff, Shreveport, La.:

GENERAL: The inclosed information was received last night. A copy thereof, together with General Cooper's letter of the 14th instant, heretofore sent you,* has been forwarded to Major-General Magruder, commanding District of Arkansas.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

S. B. MAXEY

Major-General.

[Inclosure.]

HEADQUARTERS INDIAN DIVISION,
Nunni Waiyah, September 15, 1864.

Captain T. M. SCOTT, Assistant Adjutant-General:

CAPTAIN: Colonel Walker's scouts got in last night from Fort Smith and report the Federals going up Arkansas to protect their train now

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*See Part I, p. 781.

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