HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS,
Camden, September 11, 1864

Colonel W. H. PARSONS,

Commanding Brigade:

SIR; Your communication received. In reply I have the honor, under instructions from Major-General Magruder, to say that you will proceed with your whole command by forced marches to Monticello and report to the commanding officer of that place. An advance of the enemy from the lower Arkansas is threatened.

I am, colonel, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

J. W. LEWIS.

Captain and Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS,
Camden, September 11, 1864.

TO THE COMMANDING OFFICER OF INFANTRY FORCES

AT AND NEAR MONROE, LA.:

SIR: Major-General Magruder directs that you proceed by forced marches with all the forces under your command to Monticello, Ark. There is evidence of an advance of the enemy toward Monticello from the river-lower Arkansas. Place yourself in communication at once with Major-General Parsons at Monticello. Let the line of your march be by Hamburg, where subsistence stores have been ordered to be placed in depot. The courier has been directed to bring reply. These answer.

I am, sir, very respectfully,

J. W. LEWIS,

Captain and Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS CHURCHILL'S DIVISION.

Camp Yell, September 11, 1864.

Major UPSHAW,
Commissary of Subsistence, Churchill's Division:

MAJOR: Major-General Churchill directs that your order all the commissary wagons of this division to proceed to Eldorado immediately to procure meal for this command, retaining, however, a sufficient number to transport ten days' supplies with the division. The train that your order to Eldorado will proceed direct to Monticello, crossing the Ouachita River at the Marine Saline. It is enjoined upon you to direct your agents to use all possible dispatch in carrying out these orders.

I am, major, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

B. S. JOHNSON.

Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS CHURCHILL'S DIVISION, Numbers 51.
Camp Yell, September 11, 1864.

I. Brigadier General J. C. Tappan is relieved from the command of this division and will resume command of his old brigade.

II. Major-General Churchill hereby resumes command of this division.