535 Series I Volume XXXIV-IV Serial 64 - Red River Campaign Part IV
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HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF LITTLE ROCK,
Little Rock, Ark., June 24, 1864.Colonel P. CLAYTON,
Commanding, Pine Bluff:
A fleet of boats left Devall's Bluff this morning to come up the Arkansas. Send all your available cavalry to meet them. Answer.
By order of Brigadier General E. A. Carr:
C. H. DYER,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF LITTLE ROCK,
Little Rock, Ark., June 24, 1864.Colonel P. CLAYTON,
Commanding, Pine Bluff:
Gun-boat 26, Captain Hickey, was captured this morning at Clarendon and burned. The boats ordered up the Arkansas have returned to Devall's Bluff. Don't send the scout ordered this morning.
By order of Brigadier General E. A. Carr:
C. H. DYER,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
LITTLE ROCK, ARK., June 24, 1864.
COMMANDING OFFICER,
Brownsville:
Have the Sixty-first Illinois ready to take train for Devall's Bluff, which will be sent from that place to-night to it. Have it supplied with five or six days' rations and plenty of ammunition. Report its strength to-night.
E. A. CARR,
Brigadier-General, Commanding.
HEADQUARTERS NINTH IOWA CAVALRY,
Camp Near Searcy, Ark., June 24, 1864.Captain C. H. DYER,
Asst. Adjt. General, Little Rock:
SIR: I arrived here last night. There are no rebel forces up here. I have not much doubt that they have all gone to join Shelby. The current rumor among the citizens at Searcy is that Shelby broke camp at Augusta on Sunday, and that on Tuesday he commenced crossing the White River at Des Arc for a demonstration against Brownsville or Devall's Bluff.
M. M. TRUMBULL,
Colonel, Commanding.
LITTLE ROCK, ARK., June 24, 1864.
Colonel GRAVES, or
COMMANDING OFFICER FIRST BRIGADE, SECOND DIVISION,
Huntersville:
Have the Twelfth Michigan, Fifty-fourth and Eighteenth Illinois, with yourself, ready to take the morning train for Devall's Bluff, with five or six days' rations. Shelby has attacked and captured a tin-clad at Clarendon, and we are going after him. Report your strength to-night. I expect to go myself.
E. A. CARR,
Brigadier-General, Commanding.
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