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673 Series I Volume XXXIV-III Serial 63 - Red River Campaign Part III

Page 673 Chapter XLVI. CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.-UNION.


HDQRS. SECOND DIVISION, SEVENTH ARMY CORPS, Little Rock, Ark., May 19, 1864.

Lieutenant Colonel S. P. OHR,
Railroad Depot, opposite Little Rock:

Have your infantry pickets relieved at 3 p. m. to-day. Have your rations cooked, and your men ready to march with five days' subsistence, 60 rounds ammunition per man. Two ambulances will be sent you for medical stores, and no other transportation. Acknowledge receipt of this.

J. R. WEST,

Brigadier-General, Commanding.


HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF LITTLE ROCK, Little Rock, Ark., May 19, 1864.

COMMANDING OFFICER,
Brownsville:

Keep scouting parties out south of you all the while.

By order of Brigadier General E. A. Carr:

C. H. DYER,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

LITTLE ROCK, ARK., May 19, 1864.

Colonel O. WOOD,

Twenty-second Ohio Infantry, Bronsville:

Yes; but send your largest scout on the north side. Major Lovejoy, with 200 men, left here to-day, going toward Clinton. Try and co-operate with him in cleaning out guerrillas.

By order of Brigadier General E. A. Carr:

C. H. DYER,

Assistant Adjutant-General.


HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF LITTLE ROCK, Little Rock, Ark., May 19, 1864.

COMMANDING OFFICER 106TH ILLINOIS INFANTRY,
Devall's Bluff, by messenger from Bluff to Regiment:

Hold your command subject to the orders of General J. R. West.

By command of Brigadier General E. A. Carr:

C. H. DYER,

Assistant Adjutant-General.


HDQRS. SECOND DIVISION, SEVENTH ARMY CORPS, Little Rock, Ark., May 19, 1864.

OFFICER Commanding 106TH ILLINOIS INFANTRY,
Devall's Bluff:

Move your command to Brownsville Station by the afternoon train. Acknowledge receipt of this by telegraph.

J. R. WEST,

Brigadier-General, Commanding.

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