HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND,
Eastport, Miss., January 27, 1865.

Major General G. M. DODGE,

Commanding Department of the Missouri, Saint Louis, Mo.:

GENERAL: I have the honor to respectfully request that you give the necessary orders directing that portion of the Merrill Horse now serving in your department to proceed to this point and join the detachment sent to my command for duty. The detachment now in this department is serving at my headquarters as couriers, and I am desirous to have the entire organization together and thoroughly fitted out for active service at as early a date as possible. The orders, I understand, have been issued from your headquarters for the remainder of the regiment to report to me, but as yet they have failed to do so. I would respectfully request your early action in this matter.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

GEO. H. THOMAS,

Major-General, U. S. Army, Commanding.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSOURI, Numbers 27.
Saint Louis, Mo., January 27, 1865.

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3. The Sixth Regiment Minnesota Infantry Volunteers will move to-morrow, proceeding by cars to Cairo, Ill., thence by steamer to New Orleans, La., reporting to Major General E. R. S. Canby, commanding Military Division of West Mississippi, on arrival at that point. Quartermaster's department will furnish transportation and telegraph the quartermaster at Cairo to have boats ready there for the regiment to leave immediately on its arrival. No teams or surplus baggage will be taken with the regiment.

By command of Major-General Dodge:

J. W. BARNES,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSOURI,

Saint Louis, January 27, 1865.

COMMANDING OFFICER DISTRICT OF SAINT LOUIS,

Saint Louis, Mo.:

SIR: The general commanding directs me to inform you that hereafter no persons will be banished from this department except by sentence of a military commission or by orders or instructions from these headquarters.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

J. W. BARNES,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS SAINT LOUIS DISTRICT,
Saint Louis, January 27, 1865.

Major J. W. BARNES,

Assistant Adjutant-General, Department of the Missouri:

MAJOR: I have just received a dispatch from Colonel Beveridge, commanding Third Sub-District, as follows:

The scout from Patterson into Oregon County has returned. Killed seven bushwhackers.

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