This link to the OR, in the Making of America site, clearly illustrates the cooperation between the 17th Il., the 7th Kansas and the 3rd MSM during the spring of 1865.

Title: The war of the rebellion: a compilation of the official records of the Union and Confederate armies. ; Series 1 - Volume 48 (Part I) page 183.

http://dlxs2.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=moawar;cc=moawar;q1=Leeper;rgn=full%20text;idno=waro0101;didno=waro0101;view=image;seq=0205