SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSOURI, Numbers 63.
Saint Louis, Mo., March 6, 1865.

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9. The resignation of Bvt. Brigadier General Roy Stone having been accepted by the Secretary of War, Colonel Cyrus Hall, One hundred and forty-fourth Illinois, will assume command of the military station of Alton, Ill., till other orders. General Stone will turn over all ordnance and ordnance stores for which he is responsible to Captain John D. Moore, One hundred and forty-fourth Illinois.

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By command of Major-General Dodge:

J. W. BARNES,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS SAINT LOUIS DISTRICT, Numbers 52.
Saint Louis, Mo., March 6, 1865.

1. Company I, Seventh Kansas Cavalry, will march from Hermann to Franklin and relieve Company D, of the same regiment. Company D on being relieved will march to Pilot Knob and report to the commanding officer of the Third Sub-District for further orders. The quartermaster's department will furnish transportation for the dismounted men of the command to the points named.

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By order of Brigadier-General Ewing:

H. HANNAHS,

Major Fiftieth Missouri Vols. and Actg. Asst. Adjt. General

HEADQUARTERS SAINT LOUIS DISTRICT,
Saint Louis, Mo., March 6, 1865.

Lieutenant-Colonel HILLER,

Bloomfield, Mo.:

Captain W. J. Morris telegraphs to-day from Patterson that there is a rebel force of 300 menacing that post. Do you know anything of it? Answer at once.

By order of Brigadier-General Ewing:

H. HANNAHS,

Major Fiftieth Missouri Vols. and Actg. Asst. Adjt. General

(Same to Colonel Beveridge, Pilot Knob.)

BLOOMFIELD, MO., March 6, 1865.

General EWING,

Saint Louis, Mo.:

I have had late intelligence from Crowley's Ridge and can hear of no rebel force in that direction. I have no knowledge of there being any rebels in the direction of Patterson.

H. M. HILLER,

Lieutenant-Colonel.