First Lieutenant E. H. Funston, Sixteenth Ohio Battery, acting ordnance officer.

Second Lieutenant H. H. Hyatt, Twenty-fourth Indiana, aide-de-camp. Second Lieutenant W. E. Dougherty, First U. S. infantry, assistant commissary of musters.

R. A. CAMERON,

Brigadier-General of Volunteers.

HDQRS. DETACHMENT SEVENTH ARMY CORPS,
Little Rock, April 27, 1864.

Colonel T. G. Black,

Commanding Detachment Cavalry Division:

Please send a cavalry force of 50 men, or as many as you can spare less than that (but 50 if possible), to cover the approaches to this point from toward Benton. They will remain be certain not to misdate him for the enemy during the night. Have this force in the saddle as soon after this reaches you as possible, and with as little noise and confusion.

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

J. R. WEST,

Brigadier-General, Commanding.

HDQRS. DETACHMENT SEVENTH ARMY CORPS,
Little Rock, April 27, 1864.

Captain BYRON O. CARR,

Chief Quartermasters of Department:

CAPTAIN: Please send a special train to-night to Devall's Bluff to bring to this point a battery of six rifled pieces. A detail will be at the ferry landing at 6 o'clock to-morrow morning ready to go to the opposite side to handle the pieces. My cavalry are failing every hour for want of long forage. If you can bring over from the Bluff, say 30 bales of hay, by this special train, it will relieve us greatly Please notify Lieutenant Barrell, chief quartermaster of my staff, if you do so. What we lack in numbers in cavalry it will be desirable to make up in efficiency, and it you can keep me supplied with hay for line week it will provoke of inestimable service.

I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

J. R. WEST,

Brigadier-General, Commanding.

LITTLE ROCK, ARK., april 27, 1864.

Colonel POWELL CLAYTON,

Commanding, Pine Bluff:

General Andrews left here this morning. Please advise with him and furnish him the re-enforcements. Mrs. McLean is under many obligations to you.

J. R. WEST,

Brigadier-General, Commanding.