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WASHINGTON, D. C., May 11, 1864-8.15 p.m. [Received 3 a.m., 12th.]
Major-General ROSECRANS,
Saint Louis:
The Ninth Iowa Cavalry will be sent immediately to Little Rock to report to General Steele, no matter what orders have heretofore been given to you. You will report daily to the Adjutant-General of the Army the position of this regiment till it leaves your department.
H. W. HALLECK,
Major-General and Chief of Staff.
SAINT LOUIS, MO., May 11, 1864. [Received 12.15 p.m.]
Major General H. W. HALLECK,
Chief of Staff:
Major-General Rosecrans is absent for a few days in Cincinnati. Your dispatch receive relative to the Ninth Iowa Cavalry. The regiment, except two companies, is at Jefferson Barracks, and I have ordered it to proceed immediately to General Steele. The two absent companies now in Callaway County will be hurried forward.
A. PLEASONTON,
Major-General, Commanding.
SAINT LOUIS, MO., May 11, 1864. [Received 6 p.m.]
Major General H. W. HALLECK,
Chief of Staff:
The Ninth Iowa Cavalry is in camp, Jefferson Barracks, Mo. General Rosecrans informs me that he detains it here by special telegraphic authority from General Grant.
J. W. DAVIDSON,
Brigadier-General.
WESTERN DIVISION, CAVALRY BUERAU, Saint Louis, Mo., May 11, 1864.
Lieutenant Colonel O. D. GREENE,
Assistant Adjutant-General, Department of the Missouri:
COLONEL: The brigadier-general in charge directs me to inform you that, in accordance with telegraphic instructions this day received from Lieutenant-General Grant, the Seventh Kansas Cavalry Volunteers has been ordered to report for duty to the major-general commanding Department of the Missouri. The regiment is fully equipped so far as this bureau is concerned, being supplied with horses and horse equipments, but has not as yet received its arms, a part of its equipment over which the bureau has no control. Requisitions for arms for the regiment were forwarded, however, some time since, and they are daily expected to arrive.
I am, colonel, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
A. S. MONTGOMERY,
Lieutenant and Acting Assistant Adjutant General.
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