Note 499 — VIII. THE RETIREMENT OF GENERAL PIKE
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Footnote 499:
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The orders for Hindman to repair west, issuing from Beauregard's headquarters, were explicit, not upon the point of the temporary character of his appointment, but upon that of its having been made "at the earnest solicitation of the people of Arkansas." [Official Records, vol. x, part ii, 547].