AT THE CROSSING, April 29, 1864-3.15 p. m.

Colonel [MANTER].

By 4 p. m. the brigade will be ready for cavalry and infantry to cross. A few minutes more work at the abutment to make it passable for artillery and train.

Very respectfully,

J. B. WHEELER,

Captain of Engineers, Chief Engineer.

AT THE CROSSING, April 29, 1864-9.20 p. m.

Colonel MANTER:

The wagons are sticking ahead of us. I expect we may consider the passage ahead as stopped until light, for it is very dark. I would recommend some infantry to be marched up to the head of the column by early daylight.

Very respectfully,

J. B. WHEELER,

Captain of Engineers, Chief Engineer.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF ARKANSAS, &C., Numbers 19. Little Rose, Ark., April 29, 1864.

Lieutenant Colonel S. C. Benham, having reported for duty in compliance with Special Orders, Numbers 112, paragraph XVI, War Department, Adjutant-General's Office, current series, is announced as chief commissary of subsistence for the Department of Arkansas.

By order of Major General F. Steele:

W. D. GREEN,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HDQRS. DETACHMENT SEVENTH ARMY CORPS,
Little Rock, Ark., April 29, 1864.

Captain URI MANLY,

Assistant Quartermaster, Little Rock:

CAPTAIN: Send as soon as possible to-night 100 bales cotton to a pine tree about 300 yards southwest of the penitentiary. Let them tell Captain Mason at the penitentiary when they are togo, and he can tell them the exact point. Send as above enough cotton to the penitentiary to complete the quantity there to 200 bales. Captain Mason there can tell the leading teams how many addition bales he wants.

Send 60 bales cotton as above to the white house south os Saint John's Hospital, where you have been hauling to for the last two days, immediately.

I am, captain, very respectfully,

J. R. WEST,

Brigadier-General, Commanding.