CAIRON, ILL., February 21, 1865-3. 35 p. m.

Major-General DODGE:

The Second Missouri Cavalry have gone to Nashville.

E. T. SPRAGUE,

Colonel, Commanding Post.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSOURI, Numbers 51.
Saint Louis, February 21, 1865.

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4. The Forty-fifth Regiment Missouri Volunteers, Lieutenant Colonel D. W. Wear commanding, will report to Brigadier General Thomas Ewing, Jr., commanding Saint Louis District, and will be stationed at Benton Barracks, Mo., to facilitate the reorganization of the regiment.

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By command of Major-General Dodge:

J. W. BARNES,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DIST. OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI, Numbers 49.
Springfield, Mo., February 21, 1865.

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II. Companies E and F, Sixth Cavalry Missouri State Militia, now at Linn Creek, Mo., will without delay proceed to this post and report to the commanding officer of their regiment for duty.

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By command of Brigadier General J. B. Sanborn:

WM. T. KITTREDGE,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

LEBANON, MO., February 21, 1865.

Captain KITTREDGE,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

Company H, Eighth Missouri State Militia Cavalry, is at this post. Has orders from district headquarters to move to Springfield. Will start in the morning.

J. F. McMAHAN,

Lieutenant-Colonel, Commanding Post.

COLUMBIA, MO., February 21, 1865.

[General FISK:]

GENERAL: A negro man was hung to-night at Dr. G. R. Jacobs', six miles from here, by bushwhackers. This was in accordance with a previous notice and order from them that all blacks were to leave in ten days or be killed by them. They alleged they had killed another at Stephens' same day. Of course our blacks are in terrible alarm. I desire to tell you, general, that we now have nearly about 4,000 colored people in this county, and as many, I expect, in Callaway and Howard Counties. What is to be done for their protection? Something, surely. They