HEADQUARTERS NINETEENTH ARMY CORPS, Lieutenant-Colonel CHRISTENSEN, Assistant Adjutant-General: COLONEL: I forward papers* referring to trade on the Mississippi and its tributaries. It appeared to me that the actual state of affairs in this vicinity demanded that the communication to Major-General Halleck should be made. Have not one word official from General Steele since the 11th, except an indorsement on a "cotton paper" of the 15th. Persons from Devall's Bluff and Little Rock represent everything quiet. I inclose copies of telegram from General Halleck to General Washburn, November 9t; also copy of letter from General Dana to me. ‡ Unless unexpected news from Arkansas should be received to-day, I will take steps immediately to send re-enforcements to General Washburn at Memphis, of which due reports will be made. Very respectfully, yours, &c., J. J. REYNOLDS, Major-General. 2. The Twenty-third Wisconsin Volunteers, now at Helena, Ark., will proceed without delay to Memphis, Tenn., and be reported to the commanding officer at that place. The quartermaster's department will furnish transportation. 3. The Twenty-eighth Illinois Volunteers will proceed without delay to Memphis, Tenn., and be reported to the commanding officer at that place. The quartermaster's department will furnish transportation. * * * 7. Commanding officer Second Brigade, Second Division, Nineteenth Army Corps, will proceed without delay with that brigade to Memphis, Tenn., and be reported to the commanding officer at that place. The quartermaster's department will furnish transportation. By command of Maj. Gen. J. J. Reynolds: S. C. FARRINGTON, Major and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General. HDQRS. SECOND DIVISION, NINETEENTH ARMY CORPS, Devall's Bluff, Ark., November 19, 1864. Col. BENJAMIN DORNBLASER, Commanding First Brigade: COLONEL: You will please cause to be detailed from your command three commissioned officers and sixty enlisted men to guard steamers from this point to Little Rock, to report on board steamers Tempest, Live Oak, and Eclipse at daylight to-morrow morning, 20th instant, leaving one commissioned officer and twenty men for each boat. Also one commissioned officer and twenty men for guard on steamer Emma No. 2, to report on board the boat at 10 a. m. to-morrow. They are going down White River and the Arkansas and will take rations for ten days. By order of Brigadier-General Dennis: Brig. Gen. C. C. ANDREWS, RICHARD A. KENT, Acting Assistant Adjutant-General. LITTLE ROCK, November 19, 1864. Commanding, Devall's Bluff: I understand there is a perfect crowd of steamers at your post loaded with forage. I think that those whose cargo can be put under cover there should be unloaded and the rest sent up the Arkansas, which is up and likely to be so for some time. We must send forage to Fort Smith, and the railroad has not capacity to do the business. There are no rebel troops on the Arkansas. Put guards on the boats that are to go that way, and I will have the river patrolled from Pine Bluff. The captain of the Zephyr wishes to unload and return to Memphis for a load to go to Fort Smith. Please give me your views. F. STEELE, HDQRS. SECOND DIVISION, SEVENTH ARMY CORPS, Maj. Gen. F. STEELE, Little Rock: The Zephyr, Tempest, Eclipse, and Live Oak, four boats, are still loaded with forage and quartermaster's stores. I recommend they be sent up the Arkansas. Brig. Gen. C. C. ANDREWS, C. C. ANDREWS, Brigadier-General. LITTLE ROCK, November 19, 1864. Commanding, Devall's Bluff: I am informed that the Tempest is only partly loaded, and that the Eclipse is in a sinking condition. Can you not designate other boats in their place? F. STEELE, HDQRS. SECOND DIVISION, SEVENTH ARMY CORPS, Maj. Gen. F. STEELE, Little Rock: Your dispatch is received. Captain Gaubert says the Eclipse is not in a sinking condition, but is all right. The Tempest has 1,000 bales of hay aboard.. The Emma, Captain Gaubert says, has not a full load, but she can go. C. C. ANDREWS, Brigadier-General. Brig. Gen. C. C. ANDREWS, LITTLE ROCK, November 19, 1864. Commanding, Devall's Bluff: Yours just received. Let the boats. go with guards on each boat. The Emma's freight might be discharged at Pine Bluff, and return immediately. The roads are so bad out from Pine Bluff now that they cannot send for forage. I leave the armament of the boats to your own discretion. We do not know of any rebel troops near the Arkansas below here. Clayton will reconnoiter. F. STEELE, HDQRS. SECOND DIVISION, SEVENTH ARMY CORPS, Maj. Gen. F. STEELE, Little Rock: I think the Tempest, Live Oak, and Eclipse will be wooded up so as to start at daylight. The Emina will take on about 500 boxes of clothing from wharf-boat to make up a full load, and be ready at 10 a. m. to-morrow. You speak of her stopping at Pine Bluff. She has no forage. C. C. ANDREWS, Brigadier-General. HDQRS. SECOND DIVISION, SEVENTH ARMY CORPS, Capt. C. H. GAUBERT, Assistant Quartermaster: Have the Tempest, Eclipse, and Live Oak start back and go up the Arkansas as soon as they can wood up and take on the guards. Send the Emma. If you can, conveniently, put on the stores you spoke of. The fact of their going must be kept secret, and you will caution the captains of the boats. The Emma can discharge her cargo at Pine Bluff and go back. Let me know how soon each boat will be ready for the guards to embark. Respectfully, C. C. ANDREWS, Brigadier-General, Commanding. Capt. C. H. DYER, LEWISBURG, November 19, 1864. Assistant Adjutant-General: Lieutenant-Colonel Knight's command left for Little Rock yesterday at 2 p. m. Colonel Sackett and party are waiting for a boat. The raid on our board party resulted in the wounding of one of our men. Our men formed line in their shirts, drove the rebels back, wounding Rev. Parson Farish, who it is supposed was piloting the jayhawkers. Farish is in the hospital a prisoner. River at a stand. A. H. RYAN, Colonel, Commanding. Maj. Gen. A. J. SMITH, or NASHVILLE, November 19, 1864. COMMANDER OF TROOPS EN ROUTE FOR NASHVILLE: Start for Nashville via Cumberland River as soon as possible after receiving this with what force you have and leave orders for the balance to follow by the same route. Acknowledge receipt. G. H. THOMAS, Major-General, U. S. Army. SPECIAL ORDERS, HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSOURI, Saint Louis, Mo., November 19, 1864. No. 321. 5. The Ninth Cavalry Missouri State Militia will be concentrated without delay at Macon, Mo., reporting to Brigadier-General Fisk, commanding District of North Missouri. The quartermaster's department will furnish transportation. 6. The Third Cavalry Missouri State Militia will proceed with the least practicable delay to Saint Joseph, Mo., reporting for duty to Brigadier-General Fisk, commanding District of North Missouri. Lieut. Col. H. M. Matthews, Third Cavalry Missouri State Militia, will await in this city the arrival of the detachment of his regiment heretofore ordered to that point and accompany it hence to Saint Joseph, Mo., reporting as above directed. The quartermaster's department will furnish transportation. 7. Col. Chester Harding, jr., Forty-third Missouri Volunteers, with the paroled men of his command, will proceed to and take post at Kansas City, Mo. Upon arrival at that point Colonel Harding will report for instructions to Brigadier-General Fisk, commanding District of North Missouri. The quartermaster's department will furnish transportation. 8. Brig. Gen. John McNeil, U. S. Volunteers, is hereby relieved from the command of the Rolla District of this department, and will proceed without delay to Warrensburg, Mo., and assume command of the Central District. 9. Maj. Gen. A. Pleasonton, U. S. Volunteers, is hereby assigned temporarily to the command of the Saint Louis District. ** * By command of Major-General Rosecrans: * FRANK ENO, Assistant Adjutant-General. GENERAL ORDERS, HDQRS. RIGHT WING, 16TH ARMY CORPS, Saint Louis, Mo., November 19, 1864. Division commanders will at once equip their commands for the field campaign. There will be allowed to each regiment three six-mule wagons and two ambulances, to each brigade headquarters two six-mule wagons, and to each division headquarters three six-mule wagons. In addition to these, to each brigade and division headquarters one medical supply wagon will be allowed. Each regiment will be supplied with fifty rounds of ammunition per man, including that in cartridge-boxes. Battery commanders will see that their ammunition chests are filled and the ammunition in good order. Requisitions will be sent in at once for whatever clothing and camp and garrison equipage is necessary to fully equip the command for the field. The reserve ammunition will be taken by the ordnance officer at these headquarters. By order of Maj. Gen. A. J. Smith: J. HOUGH, Major and Assistant Adjutant-General. HEADQUARTERS THIRD SUB-DISTRICT, Pilot Knob, November 19, 1864. Brig. Gen. THOMAS EWING, Jr., Commanding Saint Louis District: GENERAL: I have the honor to transmit a report of the strength and condition of the enemy in and about the Third Sub-District of Saint Louis. I have reliable information that Dick Berryman is encamped on Eleven Points River with about 200 men, badly armed, and have but little ammunition. Deserters are coming in rapidly from Price's army, and report that about 2,000 conscripts are on their way back to different parts of Missouri. The expedition sent from Cape Girardeau and this place I think will effectually disperse the rebel band of Dick Berryman and other small squads in Southeast Missouri. Most of the deserters, in my opinion, abandoned Price as soon as they found he would not be able to hold the State. A guerrilla chief by the name of Charles Polk infests the southern part of Madison County. His force is reported to be about sixty strong. I have no very reliable information concerning his whereabouts, but have instructed the commanding officer at Fredericktown to look after him. I have the honor to be, general, very respectfully, your obedient servant, A. W. MAUPIN, Lieut. Col. 47th Mo. Infty. Vols., Comdg. 3d Sub-Dist. of Saint Louis. P. S.-I have just received pretty reliable information that the different bands of guerrillas and bushwhackers in the southeast portion of the State and the northern part of Arkansas are preparing to go to Texas, probably to join Price, who is said to be moving in the direction of Red River. Dick Berryman is also reported to be on his way thither. A. W. M. |