Excerpted [and abbreviated] from The Alexander Papers:

7/1 Maj. Genl. Hindman to Capt Etter -Care Hon. B. Mitchell, Washington, Ark-directs that you move immediately here with your company - present contingencies demand it, and your earliest possible removal expected.

7/6 Hindman to Col Grinstead cdg at Camden- Capt Etter has been ordered to move here at once. If the order should not have reached him, please see that it is transmitted to him without delay. We need his artillery company here very much.

7/8 Hindman to Capt. L. P. Dodge-On special Duty & etc--directs that upon you way to this place you turn over to Capt. Etter, cdg company of arty at Washington, six of the guns placed in your charge by your instructions of yesterday, with all equipment complete. Capt Etter has been directed to procure necessary number of horses & etc., for his battery.
[Capt Dodge has been sent to Fort McCulloch, to bring here ten Parrot Guns which Gen Pike has there. He started from here last night and it will be several weeks before he returns.]

7/25 Hindman to Etter-directs that you assign a Lt of your Co to duty as acting AQM and Act’g ACS who will purchase supplies at fair prices, giving duplicate certificates in proper form for all articles purchased, and keeping a memorandum of the contents of such.
He deems it now too late to take the conscripts of Hempstead County back from Col Grinstead, if they have gone to him, but directs that the enrolling officer of any adjacent county may, and is hereby instructed, to turn over to you a sufficient number of conscripts to raise your company to 150 men.
He desires you to report immediately the number of men you have and to inform him whether or not you are collecting horses and harnesses.

9/22 Hindman to operator Arkadelphia -Has Etter’s btry from Washington passed you yet–has Speight’s regt passed, has Waterhouse’s Tex regt reached there yet?

9/28 SPECIAL ORDERS #39-HDQRS. TRANS-MS DEPT,
3rd. Etter's Ark battery will move at once to Elkhorn, and report to Brigadier Gen J. S. Rains.

9/30 Hindman to operator at Rockport -If Col Speight has arrived tell him to hasten forward with his reg’t to this place asap When Etter’s btry arrives give him same instructions

Organization of the Army of the Trans-Miss Dept 12/12
FIRST CORPS HINDMAN
1st DIV ROANE
2nd Bgde BRADFUTE Dismounted Cav
Etter’s Ark btry