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SECOND DIVISION.

Headquarters at Devall's Bluff. Brigadier General A. Shaler, commanding. First Brigade. --Third Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, Fifty-fourth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, Twelfth Michigan Volunteer Infantry.

Second Brigade. --Sixty-second Illinois Volunteer Infantry, One hundred and twenty-sixth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, One hundred and sixth Illinois Volunteer Infantry.

THIRD DIVISION.

Headquarters at Fort Smith. Brigadier General J. M. Thayer, commanding.

First Brigade. --Eighteenth Iowa Volunteer Infantry, Second Arkansas Volunteer Infantry, Thirteenth Kansas Volunteer Infantry, First Arkansas Volunteer Infantry, Twelfth Kansas Volunteer Infantry.

Second Brigade. --Second Kansas Volunteer Cavalry (dismounted), Fourteenth Kansas Volunteer Cavalry (dismounted), Sixth Kansas Volunteer Cavalry (dismounted), First Arkansas Volunteer Cavalry (dismounted).

Third Brigade. --First Indiana Home Guard, Third Indian Home Guard, Second Indian Home Guard.

Detached Brigade (Brigadier General E. A. Carr, commanding; headquarters in the field). --Fiftieth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, Twenty-seventh Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, Twenty-eighth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, Twenty-ninth Iowa Volunteer Infantry, Thirty-third Iowa Volunteer Infantry, Seventy-seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry.

By command of Major General J. J. Reynolds:

JOHN LEVERING,

Assistant Adjutant-General.


SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF ARKANSAS, Numbers 29.
Little Rock, Ark., February 1, 1865.

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4. Captain C. H. Dyer, assistant adjutant-general, U. S. Volunteers, will report to Brigadier General E. A. Carr, commanding Detached Brigade, Seventh Army Corps, for duty.

5. Brigadier General E. A. Carr, commanding Detached Brigade of Seventh Army Corps, will proceed with his command to New Orleans, La., and report on arrival to headquarters Military Division of West Mississippi for instructions.

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By command of Major General J. J. Reynolds:

JOHN LEVERING,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

LEWISBURG, February 1, 1865--9. 10 p. m.

Major JOHN LEVERING,

Assistant Adjutant-General, Little Rock:

Scout in from south side of River reports rebel cavalry having left Washington for Red River about a week ago, Shelby, at Washington, having relieved Price. Derived the information from two women who had just arrived from there.

A. H. RYAN,

Colonel.


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