HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF UPPER ARKANSAS,
Fort Riley, Kans., March 17, 1865.

Major General G. M. DODGE,

Commanding Department of the Missouri:

Special messenger from Fort Larned brings report of scout from the south. Saw large numbers of Indians. Ascertained that the Comanches (about 2,000 warriors) were encamped on the Cimarron; also Apaches and Kiowas. About 800 warriors were encamped on Crooked Creek, about twenty miles from Cimarron camp. Little Raven's band of Arapahoes is also in that vicinity. Shall I move out with what cavalry I have or await until horses and pack animals arrive? Distance of camp, 150 miles south and west of Fort Larned.

Very respectfully, Your obedient servant,

JAS. H. FORD,

Colonel and Brevet Brigadier-General, Commanding District.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DISTRICT OF UPPER ARKANSAS, Numbers 58.
Fort Riley, March 17, 1865.

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2. Company I, Second U. S. Volunteers, will proceed to Saline, and Company F, Second U. S. Volunteers, will proceed to Fort Larned, and upon arriving at their several posts will report to the commanding officer for duty.

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By command of Brevet Brigadier-General Ford:

J. E. TAPPAN,
Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSOURI,

Fort Leavenworth, March 17, 1865.

Brigadier-General MITCHELL,

Fort Kearny:

Send messengers to the Sixteenth Kansas and hurry them up. They had orders to push forward as fast as possible without injury to their horses. One regiment of infantry left for Kearny Tuesday.

G. M. DODGE,

Major-General.

HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF IOWA,
Dubuque, March 17, 1865.

ASSISTANT ADJUTANT-GENERAL,

Department of the Northwest:

SIR: I beg leave to inform the major-general that I intend to make the following changes in the stations of some of the companies in my command, if the change is approved by him: The company now stationed at Fort Union is a company of the Thirtieth Wisconsin Volunteers. I received the order directing this regiment to be sent down the river too late in the season to relieve this company, and I propose to order it down the river to Saint Louis, there to join its regiment in the