698 Series I Volume XLI-IV Serial 86 - Price's Missouri Expedition Part IV
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SPECIAL FIELD ORDERS,
HDQRS. NINETEENTH ARMY CORPS, Mount of White Numbers 27.
River, Ark., November 27, 1864.* * * *
2. Brigadier General M. K. Lawler, U. S. Volunteers, having reported at these headquarters in obedience to paragraph 3, Special Orders, Numbers 190, November 20, 1864, headquarters Military Division of West Mississippi, will proceed to Memphis, Tenn., without delay and assume command of all troops belonging to Nineteenth Army Corps assembling at that place.
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By command of Major General J. J. Reynolds:
S. C. FARRINGTON,
Major and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.
GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. SECOND DIV., 19TH ARMY CORPS, Numbers 33.
Devall's Bluff, Ark., November 27, 1864.The troops of this command will be in readiness to move immediately, with all transportation, camp and garrison equipage. The troops will embark in the following order: Eighth Regiment Illinois Infantry on steamer Southwester; Forty-sixth Regiment Illinois Infantry on steamer John H. Dickey; Thirtieth Regiment Missouri Infantry on steamer Schuyler; Twenty-sixth New York Battery on steamer Southwester; Fifteenth Massachusetts Battery on steamer Schuyler.
By order of Brigadier General E. S. Dennis:
J. H. ODLIN,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DISTRICT OF LITTLE ROCK, Numbers 110.
Little Rock, Ark., November 27, 1864.I. Colonel Thomas H. Benton, jr., Twenty-ninth Iowa Infantry, having been relieved from command of his regiment, reporting to the commander post of Little Rock.
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By order of Brigadier General E. A. Carr:
C. H. DYER,
Assistant Adjutant-General.SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. FIRST DIV., SEVENTH ARMY CORPS, Numbers 152.
Little Rock, Ark., November 27, 1864.I. The Thirty-sixth Iowa Volunteer Infantry is hereby detailed to relieve that portion of the Twenty-ninth Iowa Volunteer Infantry now on duty at the saw-mill on the Benton road. The commanding officer Thirty-sixth Iowa Volunteer Infantry will cause all Government property on said place to be guarded and protected, quarters erected for his for his command, and proper works to be constructed for the defense of the place.
By order of Brigadier General F. Salomon:
A. BLOCKI,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
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