HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF MISSISSIPPI,
Memphis, Tenn., January 31, 1865.

Major General C. C. WASHBURN,

Commanding District of Vicksburg:

GENERAL: Your communication of 9th instant was received this a. m. announcing the arrival of the advance of 900 cavalry sent from Baton Rouge. You will detain the cavalry at Vicksburg to await orders, and provide and hold in readiness transports sufficient to move them at hour's notice. You will also send forward immediately a report of force, showing the number and kind of arms, amount of ammunition on hand, &c.

By order of Major General N. J. T. Dana:

F. W. FOX,

Captain and Assistant Adjutant-General.

PATTERSON, MO., January 13, 1865.

Lieutenant-General HILLER:

The scout has got in from Logan Creek, and report nothing out there. Captain Pratt was there New Year's, and staid until the 6th of this month and then left south. Got one or two horses that I need for my scouts to ride.

B. H. BOSTWICK,

Captain, Seventh Kansas Cavalry Volunteers, Commanding Post.

KANSAS CITY, MO., January 13, 1865.

Colonel JOHN F. PHILIPS,

Warrensburg:

A small scouting party of my men came across 90 or 100 guerrillas near Lexington. They went into the Sni Hills. The lieutenant's force was too small to attack them.

CHESTER HARDING, JR.,

Colonel Forty-third Missouri Vols., Commanding.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DISTRICT OF UPPER ARKANSAS,

Numbers 6.
Fort Riley, Kans., January 13, 1865.

1. Company L, Second Colorado Cavalry, will proceed without delay to Fort Ellsworth, Kans., on the crossing of the Smoky Hill River, reporting upon arrival to the commanding officer of that post for duty. They will take with them all their camp and garrison equipage and five days' rations.

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By order of Colonel James H. Ford:

J. E. TAPPAN,

Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF KANSAS,
Fort Leavenworth, January 13, 1865.

Colonel MOONLIGHT,

Denver:

Fort Lyon and vicinity is attached to your district command.

S. R. CURTIS,

Major-General.