SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES,

January 31, 1865.

Honorable e. M. STANTON,

Secretary of War:

SIR: We have had our attention called to the Indian warfare on our frontier by resolutions passed and forwarded from our State and from other sources, and hearing that the question of organizing a more effective force to move and occupy this contested section was under consideration, we would respectfully urge immediate action, and, if possible, secure the continuance of the commerce and mails and settlements of the plains and mountains in the central of the continent.

Respectfully,

S. C. POMEROY,

U. S. Senator.

J. H. LANE,

U. S. Senator.

WASHINGTON, D. C., January 31, 1865-3. 40 p. m.

Lieutenant-General GRANT,

City Point:

The order placing Pope in general command in the West and putting Kansas under General Dodge has just been issued and telegraphed to General Pope. The legislature of Kansas has passed resolutions asking that more troops be sent to that State. They will be sent to you by mail. Troops from the West arrive slowly. General Meagher's division is ordered to embark at Annapolis. It will be slow work, as the transports must be coaled and provisioned by lighters. The weather is rapidly moderating, and an effort will be made to-morrow to make a channel for the transports at Alexandria.

H. W. HALLECK,

Major-General and Chief of Staff.

WASHINGTON, P. C., January 31, 1865.

Major-General POPE,

Milwaukee:

I send you General Orders, Numbers 11, just issued. * Please go at once to Saint Louis and have General Dodge relieve General Curtis. the Overland Mail Route requires efficient protection from Indian hostilities.

H. W. HALLECK,

Major-General and Chief of Staff.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSOURI,
Saint Louis, Mo., January 31, 1865.

Honorable e. M. STANTON,

Secretary of War, Washington, D. C.:

DEAR SIR: I have 12,000 men for duty of all arms. This includes the garrison at Alton, Ill., Veteran Reserve Corps at Draft Rendezvous, Enrolled Missouri Militia, &c., mostly Missouri State Militia, whose term

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* See p. 686.

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