PHILADELPHIA, PA., February 4, 1865--2. 30 p. m.

Major-General DODGE,

Headquarters:

Dispatch received. Doctor says I cannot travel before the 10th instant. Sent to you surgeon's certificate some days since.

A. PLEASANTON,

Major-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSOURI, Numbers 35.
Saint Louis, Mo., February 4, 1865.

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7. The Second Missouri Cavalry Volunteers, Lieutenant Colonel C. B. Hunt commanding, so soon as horses can be drawn to mount the command, will proceed at once to New Orleans, La., and report to Major General E. R. S. Canby, commanding Military Division of West Mississippi. The utmost dispatch will be observed in mounting the command. The quartermaster's department will furnish the necessary transportation.

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By command of Major-General Dodge:

J. W. BARNES,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF KANSAS,

Leavenworth, Kans., February 4, 1865.

Major General H. W. HALLECK,

Chief of Staff:

Indians drove garrison into our works at Julesburg on the 2nd and burned the stage station. Indians 1,500 strong. They also threatened Alkali Station, fifty miles this side. Colonel Livingston was between these stations with force moving to relief of Julesburg. More troops are much needed on that Overland route.

S. R. CURTIS,

Major-General.

SAINT LOUIS, February 4, 1865.

Major-General CURTIS,

Commanding Department of Kansas, Fort Leavenworth:

The Military Division of the Missouri, embracing the Departments of the Missouri, Kansas, and the Northwest, is created, Major General John Pope commanding, headquarters Saint Louis.

C. S. CHARLOT,

Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.

FORT LEAVENWORTH, February 4, 1865.

Major C. S. CHARLOT,

Saint Louis:

The division will unite forces against Indians, and seems to me advantageous. Pope being senior in rank is entitled to command and will