premises. Privates Oscar Claud and Simon Trahan, First Louisiana Cavalry, Company K, will report to you to-morrow to act as guides for the exception.

By command of Brigadier General R. A. Cameron:

J. MORRIS HAFF,

First Lieutenant, Sixtieth Indiana Volunteers, and Aide-de-Camp.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF MISSISSIPPI,
Memphis, Tenn., January 16, 1865.

Major General J. J. REYNOLDS,

Commanding Department of Arkansas:

I inclose for your information a copy of a communication I have to-day sent to the headquarters Military Division of West Mississippi. * I shall rely on you to push as large a force, with great ostentation as you can, from Pine Bluff toward Camden as far as the Saline. I would like to have the enemy convinced, if possible, that you have a bona fide intention of attacking Camden so as to draw force from Monticello. I hope you will demonstrate strongly for five days after the 25th, and then return home as fast as you please. By that time I hope to have my force out of the way and after Harrison. I would be glad to get your views.

N. J. T. DANA,

Major-General.

HDQRS. SECOND DIVISION, SEVENTH ARMY CORPS,
Devall's Bluff, Ark., January 16, 1865-6 p. m.

Brigadier General J. R. WEST, Little Rock:

I send herewith Colonel Geiger's dispatch, just received. + Colonel Geiger's aide came down on the boat, and will wait here for any orders you desire to send to Colonel Geiger. I will hold the boat in readiness to return unless you send contrary instructions.

ALEXANDER SHALLER,

Brigadier-General, Commanding.

LITTLE ROCK, January 16, 1865-7 p. m.

General A. SHALER:

Please ask Colonel Geiger's aide whether my dispatch of yesterday had reached Augusta before he left there. It will be well to keep one boat ready, but I shall have nothing more to send until Colonel Geiger replies to my dispatch of yesterday.

J. R. WEST,

Brigadier-General.

HDQRS. SECOND DIVISION, SEVENTH ARMY CORPS,
Devall's Bluff, Ark., January 16, 1865-8 p. m.

Brigadier General J. R. WEST,

Little Rock, Ark.:

Colonel Geiger's aide is not present at the moment. Colonel Geiger's dispatch was handed me by the officer who carried your dispatch to

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*See Dana to Christensen, January 16, p. 544.

+Not found.

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