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SPACIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DISTRICT OF NORTH KANSAS, Numbers 47.
Fort Leavenworth, March 7, 1865.

1. The Third Regiment U. S. Infantry Volunteers now at this post will parade at 9 o'clock on the 9th instant in the garrison square, and move immediately after en route for Fort Kearny, where they will report to the commanding officer and await further orders.

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By order of Brigadier General T. A. Davies:

D. J. CRAIGIE,

Captain and Assistant Adjutant-General.

DENVER, March 7, 1865.

Major General G. M. DODGE,

Saint Louis, Mo., Department of the Missouri:

Start 100 wagons to-morrow to Arkansas River after corn. Will have to press it; cannot pay 23 cents per pound. Unless quartermaster from Fort Union is stopped from hauling our animals must starve. Should expedition now start north after Indians horses will certainly starve.

No good will be accomplished.

T. MOONLIGHT,

Colonel.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF NEW MEXICO, Numbers 6.
Santa Fe, N. Mex., March 7, 1865.

The following order from the War Department, received this day, is republished for the information of the troops in this department, viz:

GENERAL ORDERS,
WAR DEPARTMENT, ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE, Numbers 9.
Washington, January 20, 1865.

The Territory of Arizona is reannexed to the Department of the Pacific, under the command of Major-General McDowell, headquarters at San Francisco, Cal.

By order of the Secretary of War:

E. D. TOWNSEND,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

It will therefore be necessary for officers serving in the Territory of Arizona, as they will have no official connection with these headquarters from and after this date, too make all their returns, reports, estimates, requisitions, &c., through the proper staff officers at the headquarters Department of the Pacific.

By command of Brigadier-General Carleton:

BEN. C. CUTLER,

Assistant Adjutant-General.


HDQRS. ARMY AND DIVISION OF WEST MISSISSIPPI,
Fort Gaines, Ala., March 8, 1865.

Major General S. A. HURLBUT,

Commanding Department of the Gulf, New Orleans, La.:

GENERAL: I am instructed by the major-general commanding to request that you will be pleased to order Brigadier General J. Bailey by telegraph to report to these headquarters by the earliest opportunity. I am further directed to say that you are authorized, in case you deem it


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