The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Series 1, Volume 41, In Four Parts. Part 3, Correspondence, etc. Page: 924
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LOUISIANA AND THE TRANS-MISSISSIPPI.
III. Maj. James M. Elliston, quartermaster, is relieved from duty
with Tappan's brigade, Arkansas infantry, and is announced as chief
quartermaster of Churchill's division to fill the place made vacant by
the appointment of Maj. C. B. Moore as chief quartermaster District
of Arkansas.
IV. Surg. B. A. Jandon is permanently relieved from duty with the
Twenty-sixth Regiment Arkansas Infantry and is announced as chief
surgeon of Churchill's division.
V. No more furloughs will be granted until further orders.
VI. Thip command will move to-morrow at daylight precisely, taking
the Camdeh road, crossing the Ouachita River at Hill Ferry and advanc-
ing on the Warren road. The command will move in the following
order: First, Brigadier-Geneial Tappan's brigade; second, Colonel
Gause's brigade; third, Major Blocher's artillery battalion.
VII. Major Blocher with his command and Major Elliston, chief
quartermaster, with the entire baggage train of the division will cross
the Ouachita at the ford above the pontoon bridge and overtake the
command at McElrath's plantation, where it will be encamped for the
night.
By command of Major-General Churchill:
B. S. JOHNSON,
Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.
SPECIAL ORDERS, HEADQUARTERS CHURCHIILL'S DIVISION,
No. 72. CQ amp Yell, September 11, 1864.
I. Capt. Tom McSwine, assistant quartermaster, is relieved from duty
as chief quartermaster of Churchill's division, and will report to Col.
L. C. Gause for duty. In thus relieving Captain McSwine as chief quar-
termaster, the major-general commanding takes this occasion to return
his thanks for the energy and efficiency displayed in the management
of his department.
III. Major Blocher will move to-morrow morning with Captains Mar-
shall's and Etter's batteries, leaving Captain Trigg's battery in its,
present encampment until further orders.
IV. Maj. J. M. Elliston, chief quartermaster, will retain all the public
property belonging to this division and will under no circumstances
turn any of it over to the district quartermaster.
By command of Major-General Churchill:
B. S. JOHNSON,
Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.
HEADQUARTERS FAGAN'S DIVISION,
On the Clinton and Batesville Road, September 11, 1864-3 p. m.
Colonel MACLEAN:
COLONEL: I reached this road about noon to-day, expecting to find
you moving upon it to Batesville. I can hear nothing of you, Shelby,
or anybody else. Have marched twenty miles to-day. Find no water
here. Will move on ten miles farther to the nearest to-night. Will
reach Batesville or vicinity to-morrow, where I expect and must get
orders from you. My horses and mules tired, very, and need shoeing924
[CHAP. LIII
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United States. War Department. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Series 1, Volume 41, In Four Parts. Part 3, Correspondence, etc., book, 1893; Washington D.C.. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth145055/m1/924/?q=Etter&rotate=90: accessed April 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.