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CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO., May 2, 1865.
Lieutenant Colonel F. M. MALONE:
An expedition has started to- day into Arkansas to offer terms o peace (Grant's terms to Lee) to Jeff. Thompson. To cover this expedition you will move on Thursday morning, say, 130 men, under proper officers, with twenty days' rations, and a good supply of ammunition. Send forty- eight men from Centerville on any route to Doniphan. Make up a batch of force from the Knob and send them to Poplar Bluff and have the Missouri parties move down toward a line as if making Pocahontas the objective point.
JOHN L. BEVERIDGE,
Brevet Brigadier- General.