HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSOURI, Saint Louis, February 5, 1865.

[Lieutenant W. T. CLARKE,]

Acting Assistant Adjutant-General:

Send a few to Sturgeon to watch bridges and depot.

G. M. DODGE,
Major-General.

MACON, MO., February 5, 1865-5. 50 p. m.

Major J. W. BARNES,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

There is already a small force at Sturgeon; twenty men of Forty-sixth Enrolled Missouri Militia, under a lieutenant. Does the commanding general desire an additional force?

W. T. CLARKE,

Lieutenant and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSOURI, Saint Louis, February 5, 1865.

Lieutenant W. T. CLARKE,
Acting Assistant Adjutant-General:

The force at Sturgeon now will suffice.

J. W. BARNES,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSOURI, Saint Louis, February 5, 1865.

Colonel HAYWARD,
Hannibal:

I leave here in morning for Fort Leavenworth. It is important that I get through without delay. Will you see that I make the connections, and oblige,

G. M. DODGE,

Major-General.

HEADQUARTERS FORTY-THIRD MISSOURI VOLUNTEERS, Independence, February 5, 1865.

Colonel HARDING,

Commanding Post, Kansas City:

Captain Wyckoff has just returned. He reports that he came on Gregg and nine men on Wednesday and chased him till yesterday, when he gave the chase over, near Lone Jack, to Captain Burris and Lieutenant Miller, of the First Missouri State Militia. Captain Wyckoff mustered out two and probably three. He brought in two horses, saddles, &c.

H. R. MILLS,

Adjutant.