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Re: Alexander Papers - Request of Help (#5)

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http://mdh.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/mack/id/10681/show/10605/rec/711
page 374 / image 366 of 422
The text is wrong: it is a copy of the text of page 382.

As always, help is appreciated

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[book page number 374]

[order number 338]
Hd Qrs 1st Corps, T.M. Army,
Near Ft Smith Nov 21st 1862.
Col:
Genl Hindman directs that in all cases you must obtain permits for persons whom you desire to send into Missouri as Recruiting Officers, and that no such person be sent ( ? ) ( ? ) theirs permits are rescinded.
( ? ) ( ? ) this necessary in order to prevent mistakes and confusions.
Very Respectfully
R. C. Newton
A. A. General
Col Waldo P. Johnson
( ? ) Mo., Recruiting Service
Horsehead
Johnson Co
Ark

[order number 339]
Hd Qrs 1st Corps, T.M. Army,
Near Ft Smith Nov 21st 1862.
Col:
Genl Hindman directs that you move forward well [#1] your command to "Mazzard Prairie" 4 miles East of Ft. Smith and there report to Brig Genl D. M. Frost, Comdg 3rd Division.
Very Respectfully
R. C. Newton
A. A. Genl
Col C. S. Mitchell
Comdg Mitchell's Rgt
near Clarksville

[order number 340]
Hd Qrs 1st Corps, T.M. Army,
Near Ft Smith Ark.
Nov 21st 1862, 5 ( ? ) P.M.
General:
Your ( ? ) ( ? ) on the duties of your subsistence ( ? ) have been received. I have sent you ( ? ) ( ? ) with an order upon the ( ? ) Commissary there to turn ( calligraphy gets worse and worse )
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[#1] "move forward well" is a strange construction, and there is something (like an underscored "1") above "well".

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