This point and our depots at Devall's Bluff and the railroad will be kept secure. I can whip any force sent here by the enemy. Colonel Ryan, Third Arkansas Cavalry, has returned. I send him to Lewisburg, and Lieutenant-Colonel Fuller I have sent to command at Dardanelle. The Third Wisconsin Cavalry, Lieutenant-Colonel Calkins, will arrive here in a few days, and expect to be mustered as veterans and will want to go home. They are now at Dardanelle. If horses do not arrive soon I will take such as I can find here in the hands of citizens to mount the cavalry, and then the guerrillas must make away with themselves.

Hoping success may be yours, I am, general, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

NATHAN KIMBALL,

Brigadier-General, Commanding.

GENERAL FIELD ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPT. OF ARKANSAS, Numbers 5.
Camp Numbers 8, April 5, 1864.

The command will move to-morrow morning on the road to Prairie D'Ane in the following order: First. The Third Brigade of the Cavalry Division will cross the Little Missouri River at 6 o'clock a. m. Second. The First and Second Brigades, Third Division, will follow the Third Brigade, Cavalry Division. Third. The trains of the First and Third Divisions. Fourth. The First Brigade of the Cavalry Division. Fifth. The supply train. Sixth. The Third Brigade of the Third Division. Colonel Engelmann, commanding, will guard the supply train. Seventh. The advance will move out 2 miles and halt until further orders.

By order of Major General F. Steele:

GEO. O. SOKALSKI,

First Lieutenant Second Cav., and Act. Asst. Adjt. General

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DETACH. 7TH ARMY CORPS, Numbers 6.
Little Rock, Ark., April 5, 1864.

I. Colonel A. H. Ryan, Third Regiment Arkansas Cavalry, is charged with the command and supervision of the troops in and adjacent to Lewisburg and Dardanelle, Ark.

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By order of Brigadier General Nathan Kimball:

E. D. MASON,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF ARKANSAS, &C., Little Rock, April 5, 1864.

Captain TURNER,

Commanding Detachment Third Arkansas Cavalry:

You will report with the entire effective mounted force of your command at General Kimball's headquarters at 6 o'clock to-morrow morning for duty as escort to bearer of dispatches to the army near Red River.

By order of Major General F. Steele:

W. D. GREEN,

Assistant Adjutant-General.