The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Series 1, Volume 48, In Two Parts. Part 2, Correspondence, etc. Page: 27
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cHAP. LX.] CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.-UNION. 27
commanding directs that you send about fifty men under two good offi-
cers with instructions to proceed out Doctor Ford's road to the crossing
of Grand Bayou, Bayou Corn, or Bayou Pierre Pass. At one of these
places they will probably find a small squad of the Sixteenth Indiana
Mounted Infantry, left in charge of a lot of their horses, while the main
body of the detachment has gone forward dismounted. Your force will
be instructed to approach this picket or squad very carefully to prevent
a collision. Your force is for the purpose of re-enforcing this picket to
prevent their capture, and to communicate if possible with the dis-
mounted detachment, informing them of Whitaker's probable coming,
and that he left his boats in Bayou Pierre Pass when he entered the
district. These boats should be captured and removed to Bayou Boeuf
or destroyed, the former being preferable. Whitaker, finding "his
retreat cut off, may hide in the Pierre Pass country. He should be
hunted out if possible. Your detachment should cake at least three
days' rations.
B. B. CAMPBELL,
Assistant Adjutant- General.
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSOURI,
Saint Louis, Mo., April 4, 1865-11 a. m.
Brigadier-General BUSSEY,
Fort Smith:
Is there any news of the enemy in your quarter ? Keep me posted,
please.
G. M. DODGE,
Major- General.
HDQRS. THIRD BRIG., THIRD DIV., SEVENTH ARMY CORPS,
Fort Gibson, Cherokee Nation, April 4, 1865.
Maj. Gen. J. J. REYNOLDS,
Commanding Department of Arkansas, Little Rock, Ark.:
SIR: I returned a few days ago. I employed all the spare force of
my command putting in crops or assisting the refugees to put in crops.
I shall do so for two or three weeks. There is great suffering among
the refugees. I shall endeavor to have beef driven from the south for
them. Sales of subsistence, under the division commander's orders,
had been made to those actively engaged raising crops, but General
Bussey directs me to stop it, or issue to but few parties. As the Gov-
ernment has been subsisting them, I had thought it well enough, until
supplies could reach them by the river, for the Interior Department to
let those who had money, buy under the order at cost and carriage. I
had designed issuing ten days' "refugee rations" to such as must have
it, hoping that by that time supplies would reach here by river, and
that it would enable them to put in crops. However, I countermanded
the order on the instructions from Fort Smith. I wish that a supply
of garden seeds and sweet and Irish potatoes, for seed, could be obtained
and sent at once. If possible, I desire to see this community self-sus-
taining another year. I requested General Bussey to telegraph to you,
requesting that supplies be sent by river for the refugees while the
water was in stage. The Interior Department supplied them, but little
has been brought down this winter. The small amount they have
received has been hauled from Leavenworth at ruinous rates. This is
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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 48, In Two Parts. Part 2, Correspondence, etc., book, 1896; Washington D.C.. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth139841/m1/27/?q=%22civ-war%22: accessed July 3, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.