HEADQUARTERS TRANS-MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT,
Shreveport, March 8, 1865.

Major General J. B. MAGRUDER,

Lewisville, Ark.:

A court of inquiry has been ordered for Major-General Price. He will not be assigned to duty until after sitting of the court. Turn over the command of the district to Major-General Fagan and come here en route for Texas. You can bring with you Kimmel, Major Magruder, and either Turner or Yancey, or both, if General Fagan does not require them.

By order of General E. K. Smith:

W. R. BOGGS,

Brigadier-General and Chief of Staff.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS, Numbers 67.
Lewisville, March 8, 1865.

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III. Major General Sterling Price, commanding Missouri Division Infantry, will move his division to Collinsburg, La., in pursuance of instructions from department headquarters, as soon as in his opinion the roads may be practicable. Quartermasters and commissaries of the division will make all necessary arrangements. Major-General Price will take such steps, using his escort for this purpose, as to prevent straggling, keeping the men in their proper places in ranks at all times when on the march, and taking every necessary step to prevent depredations of any kind. Major-General Price will report to these headquarters his arrival at Collinsburg.

By command of Major-General Magruder:

EDMUND P. TURNER,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS PRICE'S DIVISION, Numbers 1.
Lewisville, Ark., March 8, 1865.

I. In conformity with General Orders, Numbers 38, dated headquarters District of Arkansas, Lewisville, March 7, 1865, the undersigned assumes command of the Missouri Division of Infantry, comprising Parsons' brigade and Mitchell's brigade.

II. Captain J. W. Lewis, assistant adjutant-general, is announced as assistant adjutant-general of the division, and will be obeyed and respected accordingly.

STERLING PRICE,

Major-General, Commanding.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS PRICE'S DIVISION, Numbers 1.
Lewisville, March 8, 1865.

I. In accordance with instructions from district headquarters, Colonel Mitchell, with his brigade, will take up the line of march by the most practicable route on Monday, the 13th instant, to Collinsburg, La., twenty miles south of Walnut Hills, on the Shreveport road.