HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI,
Springfield, Mo., February 11, 1865.

Major MOORE,

Commanding at Cassville:

I am almost certain that your information in regard to the number of the rebels is incorrect. In any event you will have, with Hopper's new force, enough to whip them. The men will be at Galena to- morrow night. Do the best you possibly can with te horses. The rebels certainly cannot keep 500 horses together any length of time. The detachments understand that you will be in Galena to- morrow night. Citizens from Arkansas have gone down to get their stock out, &c. You will probably meet them.

JOHN B. SANBORN,

Brigadier-General, Commanding.

HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI,
Springfield, Mo., February 11, 1865.

J. B . HICKOCK,

Cassville, Mo.:

You may go to Yellville or the White River in the vicinity of Yellville and learn what Dobbin intends to do with his command now on Crowley's Ridge, and from there come to this place.

JOHN B. SANBORN,

Brigadier-General, Commanding.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS, DISTRICT OF NORTH MISSOURI, Numbers 33.
Macon. Mo., February 11, 1865.

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II. Major Samuel A. Garth, Ninth Cavalry Missouri State Militia, will relieve Colonel John F. Williams, Ninth Cavalry Missouri State Militia, in command of the Sub- District and Post of Macon;

By order o Brigadier General Clinton B. Fisk:

W. T. CLARKE,
First Lieutenant, Aide- de- Camp, and Actg. Asst. Adjt. General

GLASGOW, February 11, 1865.

General C. B. FISK:

I have information of some bushwhackers in this county and in Saline, but I am entirely powerless at this point for want of horse equipments. Can we not have a special order from General Dodge for the issue of the saddles at Macon! But yesterday, within six miles of this place, in Saline, a party of six were committing depredations.

ED. A. KUTZNER,

Colonel, Commanding.

COUNCIL GROVE, KANS., February 11, 1865.

Lieutenant J. E. TAPPAN,

Acting Assistant Adjutant-General:

I saw your order for my visiting these southwestern counties and I shall leave in the morning. I have visited Coffey County, and I find