HEADQUARTERS MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSOURI,
February 13, 1865- 11 a. m.

Major General G. M. DODGE,

Fort Leavenworth:

You are authorized t retain the companies of third Wisconsin mentioned in your telegram of February 11 in District of Kansas until further orders.

JOHN POPE,

Major-General.

HEADQUARTERS MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSOURI,
February 13, 1865- 7. 25 p. m.

Major-General DODGE,

Fort LEAVENWORTH:

I leave to-morrow afternoon for Milwaukee to meet Curtis. Shall be gone about a week. Had you not best come down to Saint Louis as soon as everything is in trim for Overland route!

JOHN POPE,

Major-General.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSOURI,
Fort Leavenworth, February 13, 1865.

(Received 10 p. m.)

Major General JOHN POPE, Saint Louis:

I will return as soon as possible. I wasn't to get routes all open and troops well forward. I think a day or two more will allow me to leave.

G. M. DODGE,

Major-General.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSOURI,
Fort Leavenworth, February 13, 1865.

(Received 10 p. m.)

Major-General POPE:

I recommend that 200 men in Alton waiting decision of case at Washington, known as galvanized Yankees, together with those conscripts who enlisted in Union regiments after being captured by us, be formed into a battalion and sent to me. I have no doubt that the galvanized Yankees will do good service. Government does not appear to want to send them back to tier regiments.

G. M. DODGE,

major-General.

WASHINGTON, D. C., February 13, 1865.

Honorable edwin M. STANTON,

Secretary of War:

SIR: In presenting the inclosed letters from His Excellency Governor Fletcher and Major- General Dodge,* I also present abstracts of troops serving in the Department of the Missouri during last summer and fall. + It may be seen from these that in June, July, and August

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*See Fletcher to Stanton, January 29, and Dodge to Stanton, January 31, pp. 678, 694.

+See pp. 723, 724.

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