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-teenth and Eleventh Kansas arrived? Two hundred horses left Fort Leavenworth last week for Fort Kearny for the Eleventh Kansas.
G. M. DODGE,
Major-General.
FORT KEARNY, March 6, 1865-8. 30 p. m.
Major-General DODGE:
The Eleventh Kansas will leave here to-morrow for Julesburg; also all the spare troops on the line. The Sixteenth Kansas has not yet arrived. The horses in the Eleventh Kansas are in a bad condition, and a great many dismounted men. I will leave here with the Sixteenth on their arrival. Nothing new in regard to Indians.
ROBT. B. MITCHELL,
Brigadier-General.
FORT KEARNY, March 6, 1865-9 p. m.
Major-General DODGE:
Sixteenth Kansas not heard from. Mrs. Morton, lately bought from the Indians on Powder River, says the Indians are high up on the North Fork of Powder River, where they intend to leave their families for the summer for the purpose of making war on the Platte. She says the Cheyennes, Arapahoes, Kiowas, Brule and Ogalalla Sioux, and Minneconjous are banded together and determined to make war to the knife.
This woman was captured at Plum Creek in August last.
ROBT. B. MITCHELL,
Brigadier-General.
DENVER, March 6, 1865-10 p. m.
Major-General DODGE:
No instructions regarding concentration of troops or coming campaign; please instruct. Nine companies of my regiment will be at Julesburg in a few days.
T. MOONLIGHT.
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSOURI,
Saint Louis, March 6, 1865.Colonel T. MOONLIGHT,
Denver:
I am concentrating troops at Julesburg to move northward after the Indians before grass comes. The Eleventh Kansas will be among the troops.
G. M. DODGE,
Major-General.
DENVER, March 6, 1865-9 p. m.
Major-General DODGE:
Quartermaster at Fort Union, N. Mex., sending to Colorado, Arkansas River country, and buying corn at 23 and 24 cents per pound, furnishing sacks. We are only paying 15 and 16 and cannot get corn.
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