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HDQRS. DETACHMENT SEVENTH ARMY CORPS,
Little Rock., Ark., May 1, 1864.Lieutenant-Colonel BLACK,
Commanding Cavalry Detachment:
General Carr's advance is at the bridge on Pine Bluff road and cannot cross until the bridge is replaced. You will cause to be detailed at once 1 commissioned officer and 50 men, mounted, to proceed to and replace the bridge. The officer who goes in command of the detail will report at these headquarters for instructions immediately.
By order of Brigadier General J. R. West:
SAM T. BRUSH,
First Lieutenant, Eighteenth Illinois Infy., A. A. A. G.
HDQRS. DETACHMENT SEVENTH ARMY CORPS,
Little Rock, Akr., May 1, 1864.Captain C. H. DYER,
Assistant Adjutant-General, Cavalry Division:
CAPTAIN: Lieutenant-Colonel Black, commanding cavalry detachment, informs me that he cannot furnish the mounted party which General Carr directed me to send out on the upper Pine Bluff road to-morrow morning. I am consequently unable to furnish that force. Fort the outpost ordered 4 miles out on the Benton road, I have supplied a cavalry picket of 20, the last mounted men of my personal escort. Please let me know the further orders of General Carr in the first-named matter.
I am, captain, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
J. R. WEST,
Brigadier-General, Commanding.
HDQRS. DETACHMENT SEVENTH ARMY CORPS,
Little Rock., Ark., May 1, 1864.Colonel DANIEL ANDERSON,
Commanding Post, Little Rock:
COLONEL: The general commanding directs that you cause Lieutenant-Colonel Black, commanding cavalry detachments, to report immediately to these headquarters the number of effective men he can mount for scout duty in the morning. The general desires all possible dispatch in having this report made out and forwarded.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
SAM. T. BRUSH,
First Lieutenant, Eighteenth Illinois Infy., A. A. A. G.
HDQRS. DETACHMENT SEVENTH ARMY CORPS,
Little Rock., Ark., May 1, 1864.Colonel DANIEL ANDERSON,
Commanding Post, Little Rock:
COLONEL: The general commanding directs that you cause to be detailed from the cavalry detachment of your command 2 commissioned officers and 50 men, mounted, with two days' rations, to go out on the upper Pine Bluff road to-morrow morning. The detail
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