GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS, 1ST Brigadier, 1ST DIV., 7TH A. C. Numbers 1.
Little Rock, Ark., May 19, 1864.

The following-named offices are hereby announced as the staff of the colonel commanding First Brigade, First Division, Seventh Army Corps. They will be obeyed and respected accordingly:

Captain Joseph M. Anderson, Fiftieth Indiana Infantry, acting assistant inspector-general.

First Lieutenant Joseph H. Turner, Twenty-ninth Iowa Infantry, acting assistant adjutant-general.

First Lieutenant T. L. Severs, Thirty-third Iowa Infantry, acting assistant quartermaster.

Second Lieutenant Gustavus Clemen, Ninth Wisconsin Infantry, aide-de-camp.

C. E. SALOMON,

Colonel Ninth Wisconsin Infantry, Commanding First Brigade.

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

Major JOHN A. LENNON,
Commanding Third Brigade:

MAJOR: Pursuant to instructions from district headquarters you will send a scout out to Benton and the crossing of the Saline beyond Benton. It is considered of more importance that the men who do go should be well mounted than that a large number should go.

Let the scout start with as little delay as possible.

By order of Brigadier General F. Salomon:

GEO. W. BURCHARD,

Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

FORT LEAVENWORTH, May 19, 1864.

Brigadier-General THAYER,

Fort Smith:

I sent train of provisions to Gibson and it has returned to Fort Scott. Will it be necessary to send it back, or are you supplied? Two flat-boats loaded with corn will try to run down Grand River. Guerrillas are thick about Maysville. Can you send forces up opposite Neosho, to keep them off the boats and protect refugee Indians that will be moving down next week?

S. R. CURTIS,

Major-General.

HDQRS. DISTRICT OF NORTHEASTERN ARKANSAS, Jacksonport, Ark., May 19, 1864.

Major L. C. PACE,

Commanding Escort to Refugees to Missouri:

MAJOR: You have been assigned to the command of an escort of 200 men, properly officered and furnished with ten days' rations, to guard a large train of loyal citizens who go North for security. You will conduct this train as far as the South Fork of Spring River, to a place known as Cannon's, from which point north no fear