BROWNSVILLE STATION, June 11, 1864.

Brigadier General E. A. CARR, Devall's Bluff:

I have just arrived here with my command. The country if flooded with water and the bayous almost impassable. From all the information I can gather here it will be almost impossible to cross the swamps on the road leading to Pine Bluff at present. My mules are all new and hard to manage. What time will pass this station on your return to Little Rock?

A. ERSKINE,

Colonel Thirteenth Illinois Cavalry, Commanding

PINE BLUFF, June 11, 1864.

Captain C. H. DYER, Assistant Adjutant-General:

I arrived here late last evening. Have been all through the Clear Lake, Plum Bayou, and Flat Bayou districts. There are no rebel forces in them except guerrillas. The water is so high that I do not believe I can get over on the Watesca and Rattlesnake Bayous. Shall leave here in two hours.

O. WOOD,

Colonel.

PINE BLUFF, June 11, 1864.

Captain C. H. DYER, Assistant Adjutant-General:

General Orders, Numbers 14, received to-day. A scout of the cavalry returned yesterday; had been abut 40 miles below, on the south side of the Arkansas. No enemy seen. All the roads around this post are patrolled some 12 or 14 miles out daily. Patrolling done by the advance pickets before they are relieved. All quiet on the roads this morning. A party of 50 men of the Merrill Horse, under the command of Lieutenant Bradshaw, escort telegraph repairer. They left early this morning for Little Rock.

POWELL CLAYTON,

Colonel, Commanding.

HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF EASTERN ARKANSAS,
Helena, Ark., June 11, 1864.

Lieutenant Colonel W. D. GREENE,

Assistant Adjutant-General, Dept. of Arkansas:

SIR: I apprehend that General Steele is of the opinion that some of the 100-days' troops have been ordered to report to me. None have reported. I am now reduced as follows:

Present for duty:

White troops:

35th Missouri Infantry .................................. 268

15th Illinois Cavalry ................................... 307

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575

Colored troops:

56th U. S. Colored Infantry ............................. 603

60th U. S. Colored Infantry ............................. 581

Battery E, 2nd U. S. Colored Artillery (Light) ........... 107

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1,291

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Grand total ................................................. 1,866