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TERS DISTRICT OF ROLLA,
Rolla, Mo., January 19, 1865.
Major J. W. BARNES,
Assistant Adjutant-General, Department of the Missouri:
I have the honor to report that Lieutenant Bates, Fifth Missouri State Militia Cavalry, in command of a scouting party from Waynesville, reports that he killed three noted guerrillas, named McCourtney, Anthony, and Stephens, and captured three horses on the Big Piney, near McCourtney's Mill.
E. B. BROWN,
Brigadier-General of Volunteers, Commanding.
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSOURI,
January 19, 1865-11. 45 a. m.Brigadier-General BROWN, Rolla, Mo.:
Send a few mounted men up into Maries County to look after that gang of robbers. They will have to go quietly and stay a few days so as to catch them.
G. M. DODGE,
Major-General.
HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF ROLLA,
Rolla, Mo., January 19, 1865.Major General g. M. DODGE, Saint Louis:
I have no information of any robbers in Maries County. Will you please inform me what part of the county they have been operating, and how the officers in command of the scout can get a clew to their movements?
E. B. BROWN,
Brigadier-General of Volunteers, Commanding.
KANSAS CITY, January 19, 1865.
Colonel PHILIPS, Commanding:
Scouting parties just returned report bushwhackers cleared out as far south on the line of Cass and as far east as the line of La Fayette, in the neighborhood of Pink Hills, and thence to the Missouri. I intend to send Wyckoff to the country near Pink Hills, the runway of the bushwhackers of Clay County, and on this side. Three bushmen reported to have been seen near Mr. Santafee's with four men. All the tri-monthlies ready to-morrow.
CHESTER HARDING,
Colonel, Commanding.
HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF ROLLA,
Rolla, Mo., January 19, 1865.General J. B. SANBORN, Springfield:
Please inform me by telegraph the names of the guerrillas captured in a cave. There is important testimony said to be on file in the provost-marshal's office in this district against some of them.
E. B. BROWN,
Brigadier-General of Volunteers, Commanding.
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