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SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF ARKANSAS, Numbers 136.
Little Rock, Ark., June 9, 1865.

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3. Troops stationed at Brownsville on the military railroad will report to Brigadier General Alexander Shaler, commanding at Devall's Bluff, Ark.

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By command of Major G en. J. J. Reynolds:

JOHN LEVERING,
Assistant Adjutant-General.


HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF ARKANSAS,

Little Rock, Ark., June 9, 1865.

Brigadier General ALEXANDER SHALER,

Commanding Second Division:

The Twelfth Regiment Michigan Infantry, having been permanently detached from Your command, the major- general commanding directs that Colonel Graves and all other officers and enlisted men of that regiment be ordered to join their command at this place immediately.

By command of Major General J. J. Reynolds:

JOHN LEVERING,

Assistant Adjutant-General.


HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF ARKANSAS,
Little Rock, Ark., June 9, 1865.

Brigadier General ALEXANDER SHALER,

Commanding Second Division:

The major- general commanding directs that You send one company, or if Your judgment directs, two companies, of the ninth Kansas Cavalry to Brownsville, Ark., to relieve the detachment of the Ninth Iowa Cavalry now stationed at that post. Please dispatch immediately.

By command of Major General J. J. Reynolds:

JOHN LEVERING,

Assistant Adjutant-General.


SPECIAL ORDERS
HDQRS. 1ST DIV., 7TH ARMY CORPS, Numbers 105.
AND POST OF LITTLE ROCK, Little Rock, Ark., June 9, 1865.

Colonel L. Gregg, Fourth Arkansas Cavalry, is hereby appointed to command the post Cavalry Brigade, and will relieve Colonel M. M. Trumbull, Ninth Iowa Cavalry Volunteers, immediately.

By order of Bvt. Major General F. Salomon:

A. S . KENDRICK,
Assistant Adjutant-General.


HEADQUARTERS U. S. FORCES,

Camden, Ark., June 9, 1865.

Colonel JOHN LEVEING,

Assistant Adjutant-General, Department of Arkansas:

COLONEL: YOUR communications of 29th ultimo are received. Am glad to know that the major- general commanding approves of my action thus far. A few days since I sent a party of cavalry into Columbia


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