LEWISBURG, June 19, 1864.

Captain C. H. DYER,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

If it is proper, will you please inform me if there are scouting parties from Brownsville or Little Rock in the direction of Peach Orchard Gap, Quitman, and Searcy?

Respectfully,

A. H. RYAN,

Colonel, Commanding Third Arkansas Cavalry.

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

Colonel RYAN,

Lewisburg:

There is a detachment of the Twenty-second Ohio Infantry in the neighborhood of Peach Orchard and Searcy.

By order Brigadier General E. A. Carr:

CHAS. W. MINER,

Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

LEWISBURG, June 19, 1864.

Captain C. H. DYER,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

Dispatch just received from Captain Napier, Boston Mountains. He reports Jackman, Newton, and others having passed through there on the 9th instant with 300 or 400 men, and when last heard from were at Burrowsville. He reports that country infested with small bands of rebels, mostly deserters from both armies. He captured 2 from this regiment, 1 of whom was shot trying to escape guard. The other will be sent down under charges. He also sent in 4 men of Second Arkansas Cavalry, who had been cut off from their command and were living out in the mountains.

Respectfully,

A. H. RYAN,

Colonel, Commanding Post.

CAMP SECOND BATTALION, NINTH IOWA CAVALRY,

Near Austin, June 19, 1864-3 p. m.

Captain C. H. DYER,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

SIR: Shelby's men have been crossing Little Red River in small detachments at night, for five or six days past. They cross at West Point and the fords above Searcy.

The largest squad of which I have definite information numbered about 40 men; another 30, and several smaller; several squads went in the direction of Hickory Plains. Fearing that they were concentrating there, I sent a scouting party in that direction yesterday. They could not cross the Cypress, but learned that Shelby's men were near Hickory Plains in large force; they could not ascertain