HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSOURI,
Fort Leavenworth, February 14, 1865- 7. 30 p. m.

Major J. W. BARNES,

Assistant Adjutant- General, Saint Louis:

Hold papers there. I will be back before they can get here and return. It takes five days to make round trip. Telegraph anything important. Has Fisk or Ewing or Ewing returned from Washington!

G. M. DODGE,

Major-General.

SAINT LOUIS, February 14, 1865.

Major General G. M. DODGE,

Fort Leavenworth, Kans:

Neither Ewing nor Fisk have yet reported back. Nothing urgently important in papers I intended to send you; they will keep.

J. W. BARNES,

Assistant Adjutant- General.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
WAR DPT., ADJT. GENERAL'S OFFICE, Numbers 73.
Washington, February 14, 1865.

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22. Captain William W. Lowe, Fifth U. S . Cavalry, will proceed without delay to Fort Leavenworth, Kans., and relieve Captain Sidney Clarke, assistant adjutant- general of volunteers, in his duties as assistant to the provost- marshal- general, superintendent volunteer recruiting service, chief mastering and disbursing officer for the State of Kansas and Territories of Nebraska, Colorado, and Dakota.

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By order of the Secretary of War:

E. D. TOWNSEND,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

PATTERSON, February 14, 1865.

Colonel BEVERIDGE,

Pilot Knob:

The Freer guerrilla band is in Butler County killing and robbing, and I think it best to send twenty men after them, if you do not want fifty men to go to Ripley County. I have not got men enough for both scouts.

JAS. SMITH,

Captain, Commanding.

KANSAS CITY, February 14, 1865.

Colonel J. F. PHILIPS,

Commanding, &c.:

COLONEL: General Dodge having given me permission to visit him, I went to Fort Leavenworth on THURSDAY and returned on Saturday last. I laid before him the condition of the country in this region, but the department seems to be as bare of troops as the district is. The general is moving every available hoof across the plains. All the cav-