Major-General Curtis to H. Z. Curtis, March 25, 1863
Your dispatch of yesterday is received. The troops at Forsyth are temporarily attached to your division, and you will assume command over them accordingly. You will so dispose your troops as to hold Forsyth securely against any probable attack. If it be necessary, on account of forage, cross a part of your division over the river and occupy
White River. J. M. SCHOFIELD, Major-General.
GENERAL ORDERS, } HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE Missouri, No. 22. Saint Louis, Mo., March 25, 1863.
Pursuant to Paragraph IT, General Orders, No. 48, War Department, Col. B. L. E. Bonneville, U. S. Army, is, in addition to his other duties, assigned to duty as commissary of musters for this department.
District and army commanders will, as soon as practicable, indicate the officers to be assigned to duty at their respective headquarters as assistant commissaries of musters. Such as have no officer of the Regular Army (including additional aides-de-camp, appointed by the President, under the act approved August 5, 1861) under their commands to recommend for this duty, will report the fact, by telegraph or otherwise, that proper officers may be assigned as soon as possible.
By command of Major-General Curtis:
Assistant Adjutant-General.
Hpqrs. Dists. WEST. ARK. AND IND. T., DEPT. OF THE Mo.,
In the Field, Oamp Pomeroy, Ark., March 27, 1863.
Commanding Department of the Missouri :
Sie: The tri-monthly return has been forwarded. The general health
in this immediate command is good, although we still have occasional