knowledge of it until the men had started for Fort Larned, Kans. I respectfully request that in the future when details are made from my command they may be made through me, in order that I may know at any time of what my command consists.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

W. H. GREENE,

Captain, Second Colorado Cavalry, Commanding Post.

FORT LEAVENWORTH, February 8, 1865.

Major REYNOLDS,

Wyandotte:

You will move your command to Fort Leavenworth and report to the commanding officer of post for duty immediately.

THOS. A. DAVIES,

Brigadier-General, Commanding.

FORT LEAVENWORTH, February 8, 1865.

Brigadier-General MITCHELL,

Commanding, Omaha:

Send me by telegraph a statement of the condition of affairs along the Overland Mail and Telegraph Route. Do the stages run regularly; what measures are you taking to keep up the route and protect it; what Indians are engaged in these troubles; where are their villages; do their families travel with them? I want everything that will post me.

G. M. DODGE,

Major-General.

FORT LEAVENWORTH, February 8, 1865.

Colonel LIVINGSTON,

Cottonwood:

I desire to know the condition of affairs on the Platte route. Do the stages run through; what Indians are engaged in the troubles; where are their villages; do their families travel with them; have you spies in their camps; what action have you taken to repair the telegraph and protect the stages? Give me all particulars, so I can have a full understanding of the case.

G. M. DODGE,

Major-General.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF NEW MEXICO, Santa Fe., N. Mex., February 8, 1865.

TO THE PEOPLE:

Owing to the Indian difficulties upon the roads leading from New Mexico to the States a company of troops will leave Fort Union, N. Mex., for Fort Larned, Kans., on the 1st and 15th of every month until further orders, commencing on the 1st day of March, 1865. The first company will go by the Raton Mountain route, the second by the