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HDQRS. THIRD DIVISION, SEVENTH ARMY CORPS,
Fort Smith, Ark., March 23, 1865-1. 10 p. m.Major-General POPE,
Commanding Military Division of the Missouri, Saint Louis, Mo.:
GENERAL: One section of the Second Kansas Battery is at Fort Scott, the other two sections here. I earnestly desire to have the section at Fort Scott ordered here. I have only one battery besides the two sections of the Second Kansas, which, in my opinion, is not enough. See General Orders, Numbers 15, War Department, 1864.
CYRUS BUSSEY,
Brigadier-General, Commanding.
FORT SMITH, March 23, 1865.
Major MOREY,
Van Buren, Ark.:
I will send you thirty men to enable you to send out after bushwhackers.
BUSSEY.
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSOURI,
Fort Leavenworth, March 23, 1865.Major-General POPE,
Saint Louis, Mo.:
The reports from Cimarron on the south and Platte on the north routes show that the Indians are making extensive preparations for war. Colonel Ford moved out to-day with all his cavalry, some 1,200, to Fort Larned; from thence he moves south to strike Indians on Cimarron. I see no very good prospect of moving north from Laramie unless we have better luck getting troops there than we have had thus far. The officers in charge of the regiments marching north I am confident have done and are doing all in their power to push on. High water, deep snows, and cold weather have retarded their progress.
G. M. DODGE,
Major-General.
HEADQUARTERS MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSOURI,
Saint Louis, March 23, 1865-12. 45 p. m.Major-General DODGE,
Fort Leavenworth:
I shall leave here for Little Rock on Sunday. You had probably best return as soon as you get through your business. Will it not be well to take some steps to keep the stage route secure between Warrensburg and Kansas City?
JOHN POPE,
Major-General.
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSOURI,Fort Leavenworth, Kans., March 23, 1865. (Received 3. 40 p. m.)
Major-General POPE:
If I send the Forty-eighth Wisconsin, now on the way to Saint Louis, to Fort Scott, and relieve cavalry for duty on the border, would
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