[Second indorsement.]

HEADQUARTERS LA FOURCHE DISTRICT,
Thibodeaux, La., February 21, 1865.

Respectfully forwarded for the information of General Sherman.

R. A. CAMERON,

Brigadier-General of Volunteers, Commanding District.

FEBRUARY 16-18, 1865. - Operations about Bennett's Bayou and Tolbert's Mill, Ark.

Report of Lieutenant William N. Alsup, Forty-sixth Missouri Infantry.

HDQRS. COMPANY H, 46TH Regiment MISSOURI VOLUNTEERS,
Ozark County, Mo., February 16 [18?], 1865.

GENERAL: I have to report that on the 16th of February, 1865, i, with forty-eight men of my command, proceeded to Bennett's Bayou, Fulton County, Ark. From there to Tolbert's Mill, on Bennett's River, where we found one guerrilla or bushwhacker, who we succeeded in killing, and being satisfied that the mill was a resort for rebels and guerrillas, I ordered it burned. I also succeeded in killing one other guerrilla near the same place. I then returned from there to Douglas County, thoroughly scouting the country through which we passed, and arrived at camp or quarters on the 18th without the loss of anything.

Very respectfully,

WM. N. ALSUP,

First Lieutenant Company H. Forty-sixth Missouri Volunteer Infantry.

Brigadier General J. B. SANBORN.

FEBRUARY 16-20, 1865. - Scout in Ozark County, Mo., and Marion County, Ark.

Report of Captain James H. Sallee, Sixteenth Missouri Cavalry.

HDQRS. COMPANY B, SIXTEENTH MISSOURI CAVALRY,
Lebanon, Mo., February 22, 1865.

CAPTAIN: I beg leave to submit to you the following facts connected with a scout made by me with a detachment of Company B, Sixteenth Missouri Cavalry Volunteers, in obedience to the order of Lieutenant Colonel John F. McMahan:

I left this place on the morning of the 16th instant, with fifteen days' rations, and proceeded to Little North Fork, in Ozark County, Mo. Here I met with four citizens of Douglas County, Mo., viz, Isham Lamar, Johnson Lamar, William Lamar, and George Lamar, who reported to me that they had been to White River, near the Widow Magness, and had found some rebels in a cave and wanted assistance to catch them. I immediately started in search of the cave, the Lamars accompanying me as guides. On arriving at the cave I found three bushwhackers,