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771 Series I Volume XLI-II Serial 84 - Price's Missouri Expedition Part II

Page 771 Chapter LIII. CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.-UNION.

V. Major George R. French, district provost-marshal, is charged with general direction of enrollment, and will watch that the organizations are pushed forward as rapidly as possible.

By command of Brigadier General E. A. Carr:

C. H. DYER,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

LITTLE ROCK, ARK., August 19, 1864.

Brigadier General C. C. ANDREWS,

Devall's Bluff:

Send the Third Michigan Cavalry, except that portion on duty at Remount Camp, to take station at Brownsville. Let one battalion move to-morrow, and Colonel Moyers proceed by rail, and if Colonel Wood is gone he will assume command at Brownsville. The One hundred and twenty-sixth Illinois Infantry has been ordered to Pine Bluff.

By order of Brigadier General E. A. Carr:

C. H. DYER,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

LITTLE ROCK, ARK., August 19, 1864.

Brigadier General C. C. ANDREWS,

Devall's Bluff:

Send the One hundred and twenty-sixth Illinois Infantry by railroad to this place, with a view of their going to Pine Bluff by steam-boat, taking their baggage and camp equipage. Report the strength of the regiment, and whether there are railroad facilities to send them to-morrow. They had better take three days' rations.

By order of Brigadier General E. A. Carr:

C. H. DYER,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

DEVALL'S BLUFF, August 19, 1864-9 p. m.

Captain C. H. DYER:

Aggregate present of One hundred and twenty-sixth Illinois, 504; effective strength, 440; and they can go as soon as train comes in from Little Rock. Let that be buried up so the troops can get to Little Rock before dark. Three hundred of First Iowa go on morning train.

C. C. ANDREWS,

Brigadier-General.

LITTLE ROCK, ARK., August 19, 1864.

Brigadier General C. C. ANDREWS,

Devall's Bluff:

The train which goes east in the morning will bring the One hundred and twenty-sixth and the One hundred and sixth Illinois Infantry on its return in the afternoon.

By command of Brigadier General E. A. Carr:

S. E. GRAVES,

Captain and Acting Aide-de-Camp.


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