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653 Series I Volume XLVIII-I Serial 101 - Powder River Expedition Part I

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SPECIAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF ROLLA, Numbers 22.
Rolla, Mo., January 26, 1865.

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2. Captain William Monks, commanding Company K, Sixteenth Cavalry Missouri Volunteers, will immediately on receipt of this order move with his command, camp and garrison equipage, to Houston, Texas County, Mo. On arriving at Houston, Captain Monks will at once proceed to construct, under the direction of Major O. P. Newberry, Fifth Cavalry Missouri State Militia, a stockade fort for the protection of the troops against surprise.

By order of Brigadier-General Brown:

J. H. STEGER,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

LEAVENWORTH, KANS., January 26, 1865.

(Received 6 p. m.)

Major General H. W. HALLECK,

Chief of Staff:

The troops have returned to Overland route without finding Indians. Colonel Livingston, who commanded, says the route is all clear and mails should run through, as we are again ready to furnish escort.

S. R. CURTIS,

Major-General.


SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DISTRICT OF UPPER ARKANSAS, Numbers 18.
Fort Riley, Kans., January 26, 1865.

1. The commanding officer Company D, Second Colorado Cavalry, will report with his company for duty to the commanding officer Fort Riley, Kans.

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By order of Colonel James H. Ford:

J. E. TAPPAN,
Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. MIL. DIV. OF WEST MISSISSIPPI, Numbers 27.
New Orleans, La., January 27, 1865.

3. The following batteries of light artillery, now under the command of the chief of artillery and ordnance, Military Division of West Mississippi, will report to Major General F. Steele for assignment to duty with the troops under his command at Kenner, La., viz: The Second Connecticut, the Second, Fourth, Seventh, and Fifteenth Massachusetts, the Twenty-first and Twenty-sixth New York, the First Indiana and Seventeenth Ohio Batteries. The major-general commanding at Kenner will cause these batteries to be carefully inspected, their deficiencies ascertained, and the whole put in thorough condition for immediate and active field service.

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By order of Major General E. R. S. Canby:

C. T. CHRISTENSEN,

Lieutenant-Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.


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