GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF ARKANSAS, Numbers 24.
Little Rock, Ark., February 28, 1865.

The following staff officers are announced, viz: Lieutenant Colonel John Levering, assistant adjutant-general, U. S. Volunteers, assistant adjutant-general; Captain Henry T. Noble, assistant quartermaster, U. S. Volunteers, acting chief quartermaster, department; Captain C. A. Henry, assistant quartermaster, U. S. Volunteers, acting chief quartermaster, Seventh Army Corps; Lieutenant Colonel S. C. Benham, commissary of subsistence, U. S. Volunteers, chief commissary of subsistence; Lieutenant Colonel A. D. Nelson, major First U. S. Infantry, assistant inspector-general; Major J. R. Smith, surgeon, U. S. Army, medical director; Major S. C. Farrington, judge-advocate, U. S. Volunteers, judge-advocate; Major E. C. Bainbridge, captain, Fifth U. S. Artillery, aide-de-camp; Captain E. H. Twining, aide-de-camp, U. S. Volunteers, aide-de-camp; Captain J. B. Wheeler, U. S. Engineer, U. S. Engineers, chief engineer; Captain Benj. Nields, First Delaware Battery, chief of artillery; Major C. C. White, Twenty-eighth Wisconsin Volunteers, provost-marshal-general; Major A. O. Vincent, Fourth Arkansas Cavalry, commissary of musters; Captain E. W. Tarlton, Third U. S. Cavalry, special inspector of cavalry; First Lieutenant Thomas D. Witt, First Missouri Light Artillery, acting chief of ordnance.

By command of Major General J. J. Reynolds:

JOHN LEVERING,

Lieutenant-Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.

HDQRS. THIRD DIVISION, SEVENTH ARMY CORPS,
Fort Smith, Ark., February 28, 1865.

Colonel M. LA RUE HARRISON,

First Arkansas Cavalry, Fayetteville, Ark.:

It has been represented to me that portions of your command have been committing the most outrageous excesses, robbing and burning houses indiscriminately. This must cease at once, and the property of the people must be respected. Hundreds of good Union people are left destitute and become a public charge. The citizens who are at home minding their own business must be encouraged to cultivate their lands, and all officers and soldiers will be required to protect them. Let war be made on guerrillas and not women and children. Madison and Carroll Counties are specially named as the scene of these outrages. Strict discipline must be enforced in your command.

CYRUS BUSSEY,

Brigadier-General, Commanding.

HEADQUARTERS MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSOURI,
Saint Louis, Mo., February 28, 1865.

Major General H. W. HALLECK:

GENERAL: I wrote you some time since asking the retransfer of headquarters Department of the Missouri to Saint Louis. Since that time General Dodge has again called my attention to the necessity of his being here, on account of the great mass of business in Missouri, which cannot be done at Fort Leavenworth. Everything in the old Kansas