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959 Series I Volume XLVIII-II Serial 102 - Powder River Expedition Part II

Page 959 Chapter LX. CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. -UNION.

WASHINGTON, June 21, 1865.

Major-General POPE,

Saint Louis, Mo.:

Retain the Fourteenth Kansas Cavalry is service, and mount it from the horses now en route for Little Rock.

U. S. GRANT,

Lieutenant-General.


SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF ARKANSAS, Numbers 146.
Little Rock, Ark., June 21, 1865.

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6. A battalion of the Eleventh Missouri Cavalry, not less than 300, under a field officer, will proceed to Camden, Ark., and report to Brigadier General G. F. McGinnis, relieving the Eighth Missouri Cavalry. The Eighth Missouri Cavalry on being relieved will proceed to Little Rock and report to Brigadier General P. Clayton, commanding Cavalry Brigade, Seventh Army Corps.

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By command of Major General J. J. Reynolds:

JOHN LEVERING,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSOURI, Numbers 152.
Saint Louis, Mo., June 21, 1865.

Chaplain A. Wright, Second Regiment U. S. Volunteers, is hereby assigned to duty as superintendent of refugees for the Department of the Missouri, with the exception of the State of Missouri, with headquarters at Fort Leavenworth, Kans.

By command of Major-General Dodge:

J. W. BARNES,

Assistant Adjutant-General.


SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSOURI, Numbers 166.
Saint Louis, Mo., June 21, 1865.

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8. The Second Regiment Ohio Cavalry Volunteers, Lieutenant Colonel D. Seward commanding, will proceed without delay to Springfield, Mo., by railroad, reporting for duty to Brigadier General T. J. McKean, commanding the District of Southwest Missouri. General McKean will cause a sufficient number of horses to mount the regiment to be turned over to Lieutenant-Colonel Seward by the commanding officers of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Regiments Missouri Cavalry Volunteers. The quartermaster's department will furnish the necessary transportation.

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By command of Major-General Dodge:

J. W. BARNES,
Assistant Adjutant-General.


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