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465 Series I Volume XLI-IV Serial 86 - Price's Missouri Expedition Part IV

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General: Brigadier General Joseph R. West, U. S. Volunteers, chief of cavalry: Lieutenant Colonel W. D. Green, assistant adjutant-general; Captain John F. Lacey, assistant adjutant-general; Lieutenant Colonel George O. Soklaski, assistant inspector-general; Colonel B. O. Carr, chief quartermaster; Lieutenant Colonel S. C. Benham, chief commissary of subsistence; Surg. Joseph R. Smith, U. S. Army, medical director; Captain J. B. Wheeler, Corps of Engineers, U. S. Army, chief engineer; First Lieutenant A. Mackenzie, Corps of Engineers, U. S. Army, assistant to chief engineer; Major Edward L. Joy, judge-advocate.

Attached: Lieutenant Colonel J. L. Chandler, Seventh Missouri Cavalry Volunteers, provost-marshal-general; Major J. B. Rogers, Merrill's Horse, acting assistant inspector-general; Major A. O. Vincent, Fourth Arkansas Calvary Volunteers, commissary of musters; First Lieutenant Henry Sachs, Third U. S. Cavalry, acting assistant quartermaster; First Lieutenant Thomas D. Witt, First Missouri Light Artillery, chief ordnance officer; Asst. Surg. W. W. Bailey, First Missouri Cavalry Volunteers, acting medical purveyor.

By order of Major. General F. Steele:

W. D. GREEN, Assistant Adjutant-General.


SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF ARKANSAS, Numbers 275.
Little Rock, November 7, 1864.

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V. Colonel William McE. Dye, Twentieth Iowa Infantry Volunteers, commanding First Brigade, Third Division, Nineteenth Army Corps, will proceed with three regiment of his brigade (the Twentieth Iowa, Twenty-third Iowa, and Thirty-fifth Wisconsin Infantry)

to Brownsville, and there await further orders at that station. The other regiment to his brigade will join him as soon as practicable after the arrival at Devall's Bluff of a brigade now under orders at the mouth of White River. The assistant quartermaster at Devall's Bluff will furnish such land transportation as may be necessary to carry five day's rations for the command and ten day's rations of forage for the animals pertaining thereto.

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By order of Major General T. Steele:

W. D. GREEN,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

HDQRS. SECOND DIVISION, NINETEENTH ARMY CORPS,

Mouth of White River, Ark., November 7, 1864.

Colonel DORNBLASER,

Commanding First Brigade:

COLONEL: You will proceed with your command to Devall's Bluff, Ark., and immediately upon your arrival there communicate by telegraph with General Steele, at Little Rock, or wherever he may by, reporting your arrival, forces, and c.

By order of Brigadier-General Dennis:

RICHARD A. KENT,

Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.


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