GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DISTRICT OF NORTH MISSOURI, Numbers 12.
Macon, Mo., March 16, 1865.

The following- named counties of this district will constitute the Sub- District of Mexico, viz: Saint Charles, Warren, Lincoln, Montgomery, Pike, Audrain, Callaway, Boone, Howard, Randolph, and Chariton, Lieutenant Colonel D. M. Draper, Ninth Cavalry Missouri State Militia, is assigned to the command of said sub- district, headquarters at Mexico, Mo.

By order o Brigadier General Clinton B. Fisk:

THOS. J. TIDSWELL, JR.,

Lieutenant and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS.
HDQRS. DISTRICT OF NORTH KANSAS, Numbers 54.
Fort Leavenworth, March 16, 1865.

1. Colonel A. P. Caraher, Second U. S. Volunteers, temporarily on duty at this post, is hereby relieved and will proceed to Fort Riley and there assume command of the regiment as soon as practicable. The quartermaster will furnish the necessary transportation, including servants and baggage.

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By order of Brigadier General T. A. Davies:

D. J. CRAIGIE,
Captain and Assistant Adjutant-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DISTRICT OF UPPER ARKANSAS, Numbers 57.
Fort Riley, March 16, 1865.

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7. The following companies, comprising battalion U. S . Volunteers, are relieved from duty with the battalion and assigned to duty as follows: Company F, Second Lieutenant J. T. Reed commanding, to post Saline; COMPANY C, Captain W. F. Armstrong commanding, to Fort Ellsworth; Companies B and K, Lieutenant E. F. Hinds commanding, to Fort Zarah; Companies E, H, and I to Fort Larned. They will march at daylight Saturday, the 18th instant, reporting upon arrival to te commanding officer of the posts to which they are assigned. The chief quartermaster of the district will furnish the necessary transportation, and the chief commissary will furnish fourteen days' rations for the whole command.

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By command of Brevet Brigadier- General Ford:

J. E. TAPPAN,

Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

FORT KEARNY, March 16, 1865- 1. 10 p. m.

Major- General DODGE:

The most miraculous event of the war is the loss of the Sixteenth Kansas. I cannot hear from them by scout or otherwise.

ROBT. B. MITCHELL,

Brigadier-General.