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8,000 to cover Price's movement. The fortifications at Fort Smith are strong and there are no apprehensions for Thayer. He has sixty days' rations, but has great difficulty in getting forage. In about a week I shall have 3,500 of the best mounted cavalry that has ever been in this department, which I propose to send up to Dardanelle to watch Price on his return. I have several spies after him who will report his movements. I also have spies in Camden. I propose to reoccupy Lewisburg. It is necessary to keep open communication with Fort Smith.
F. STEELE,
Major-General.
SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DISTRICT OF LITTLE ROCK, Numbers 92.
Little Rock, Ark., October 13, 1864.II. Brigadier-General Andrews, commanding Second Division, Devall's Bluff, will furnish with guards, pickets, and herders may be necessary at the quartermaster's recuperating camp, to be composed of infantry or cavalry or both. The five squadrons Eleventh Missouri Cavalry now at the quartermaster's recuperating camp will encamp with their regiment.
By order of Brigadier General E. A. Carr:
C. H. DYER,
Assistant Adjutant-General.LITTLE ROCK, October 13, 1864.
Brigadier General C. C. ANDREWS,
Devall's Bluff:
I wish you to send troops on the Celeste or some other boat to Clarendon with orders to disperse the guerrillas that have been firing on boats at that point. Direct the officers in command to post notices that every house within ten miles of Clarendon will be burned of the firing on boats does not cease. We hear nothing of Magruder since he fell back to Camden.
F. STEELE,
Major-General.
LITTLE ROCK, October 13, 1864.
Brigadier General C. C. ANDREWS,
Devall's Bluff:
A beef contractor reports to me that the guerrillas at Devall's Bluff have run off a lot of cattle, and that he cannot get an escort to go for them. Beef is very scarce in this department, and if possible I hope the cattle will be recovered.
F. STEELE,
Major-General.
DEVALL'S BLUFF, October 13, 1864 - 5 p. m.
Major General F. STEELE,
Little Rock:
I sent 110 men on Celeste to mouth of Cache River to punish the guerrillas; they left at midnight. At 7 this morning I went down
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