The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Series 1, Volume 8. Page: 776
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776 OPERATIONS IN MO., ARK., KANS., AND IND. T. [CHAP. XVIIL
RICHMOND, VA., March 11, 1862.
Gov. H. M. RECTOR,
Little Rock, Ark.:
Send orders in my name to Brig. Gen. Albert Rust to take the field
at once, assuming command of any Arkansas troops ready for service,
and press on to re-enforce General Van Dorn.*
J. P. BENJAMIN,
Secretary of War.
Actual strength present of McCulloch's division, March 11, 1862.Commands.
First (Greer's) Brigade .............
3d Texas Cavalry.......... ......
9th Texas Cavalry .......... ......
11th Texas Cavalry................
I---
Total ................. I......
Second (Churchill's) Brigade:
Churchill's regiment......... 18
Embry's regiment .........1 14
H6bert's regiment ......... 11
Hill's regiment ............. 24
McNair's regiment ..........
MllcRae's regiment .......... 10
Mitchell's regiment.......... - 10
Rector's regiment .......... - ...
Whitfield's battalion-..--.... -
Hart's battery ............. 2
Total ..--- ..........-... 98
Grand total................" '
..... 520
175
252
947
279 297
155 169
260 271
282 I 306352 352
168 178
189 199
111 120
53 55
1, 849 i1, 947
......2, 894Remarks on brigade reports.
Both men and horses in dreadful condition.
About seven companies of this brigade are miss-
ing and supposed to be with the train.
Two of the commands, Stone's regiment and
Brooks' battalion, are with the trains.
Missing.
3 guns, 3 caissons, no ammunition.HUMBOLDT, March 12, 1862.
General BEAUREGARD, Jackson:
A messenger just in from General McCown states the enemy have
moved down from New Madrid to neighborhood of Point Pleasant. All
quiet at our forts. Our gunboats keeping.the enemy from establishing
works on the river. Estimated force 15,000, with seventy pieces of
light artillery. Fifty-two heavy guns mounted at Island 10 and Madrid
Bend.
My heavy baggage will all be sent off to-morrow. Five days' rations
distributed to the command, 100 rounds of ammunition to the infantry,
200 to the artillery. All will be in hand day after to-morrow morning.
Generals Clark and Cheatham placed each in command of First and
Second Divisions, composed of two brigades each, each brigade hav-
ing a battery attached. Orders given for concentrating at Grand Junc-
tion same amount of ammunition as now distributed for a reserve.
Will give accurate information as to ammunition and supplies of the
force on the river in a day or two.
L. POLK.
*General Rust so ordered in Special Orders, No. 58, A. and I. G. O., of March 13, 1862.I
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