4. The Twelfth Michigan Volunteer Infantry will proceed to Pine Bluff, Ark., and be reported to the commanding officer at that place for orders. The quartermaster's department will furnish transportation.

5. The Fifty-forth Illinois Volunteer Infantry will be assembled with the least possible delay at Huntsville, and proceed to Pine Bluff, Ark., and report to the commanding officer of that port for orders.

6. The Thirty-sixth Iowa Volunteer Infantry will proceed to Devall's Bluff and be reported to Brigadier-General Shaler, commanding for duty. The quartermaster's department will furnish transportation.

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12. Pursuant to instructions from Headquarters of the Army, the following-named officers, whose services are no longer required, are relieved from duty in this department, and will without delay proceed to their respective places of residence, and report from thence by letter to the Adjutant-General of the Army: Major General J. G. Blunt, U. S. Volunteers.

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By command of Major General J. J. Reynolds:

JOHN LEVERING,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF ARKANSAS, Little Rock, Ark., June 3, 1865.

Brigadier-General SHALER,
Devall's Bluff:

Orders will issue to-day for Thirty-sixth Iowa Volunteers to go to Devall's Bluff. In carrying out this order it is expected that you will place one company of the regiment at the mouth of the river and one at Saint Charles. To meet an emergency the Twelfth Michigan and Fifty-fourth Illinois will have go to at once to Pine Bluff. Other troops will replace them soon.

By command of Major-General Reynolds:

JOHN LEVERING,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF ARKANSAS, Little Rock, Ark., June 3, 1865.

Brigadier-General BUSSEY,
Fort Smith:

Rebel soldiers reporting without arms will be permitted to go to their homes. Surrenders imply that arms are laid down. Where no arms are surrendered no notice should be taken officially. We have discovered a disposition to secrete arms and at the same time come in to secure a certificate of parole as a protection against further demands upon them. These certificates are at a premium now. Rebel General Dockery has just left here after concluding an agreement to surrender all forces and arms in the State on the 20th instant at Monticello, Camden and Washington.

By command of Major-General Reynolds:

JOHN LEVERING,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

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