SEPTEMBER 11- 25, 1864.- Operations in the Cherokee Nation, Ind. Ter., with actions at Hay Station, near Fort Gibson (16th), and at Cabin Creek and Pryor's Creek, Ind. Ter. (19th).

REPORTS.

Numbers 1.- Major General Samuel R. Curtis, U. S. Army, commanding Department of Kansas.

Numbers 2.- Major General George Sykes, U. S. Army, commanding District of South Kansas.

Numbers 3.- Colonel James M. Williams, Seventy- ninth U. S. Colored Troops.

Numbers 4.- Captain James H. Bruce, Second Indian Home Guard.

Numbers 5.- Major John A. Foreman, Third Indian Home Guard.

Numbers 6.- Major Henry Hopkins, Second Kansas Cavalry.

Numbers 7.- Captain Edgar A. Barker, Second Kansas Cavalry.

Numbers 8.- Colonel Charles R. Jennison, Fifteenth Kansas Cavalry.

Numbers 9.- Captain Curtis Johnson, Fifteenth Kansas Cavalry.

No. 10.- Major General Samuel B. Maxey, C. S. Army, commanding District of Indian Territory.

No. 11.- Brigadier General Douglas H. Cooper, C. S. Army, commanding Indian Division.

No. 12.- Brigadier General Stand Watie, C. S. Army, commanding First Indian Brigade.

No. 13.- Brigadier General Richard M. Gano, C. S. Army, commanding brigade.

No. 14.- Congratulatory Orders.

Numbers 1. Report of Major General Samuel R. Curtis, U. S. Army, commanding Department of Kansas.

FORT LEAVENWORTH, September 20, 1864.

The further advance of rebels toward our department is attested by the taking of a train by 1,500 of Stand Watie's men at Cabin Creek, sixty miles this side of Fort Gibson. Two hundred and two wagons, five ambulances, forty artillery horses,and 1,253 mules were captured. General Thayer, commanding that district, recently informed me his communication with his commander (General Steele) was cut off, which corroborates the report that forces had also crossed between Little Rock and Fort Smith.

S. R. CURTIS,

Major- General.

Major- General ROSECRANS,

Commanding Department of the Missouri.

Numbers 2. Report of Major General George Sykes, U. S. Army, commanding District of South Kansas.

HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF SOUTH KANSAS,
September 25, 1864.

SIR: I forward for the information of the major- general commanding reports of the recent disaster at Cabin Creek:

From the letters of Major Foreman and Colonel Williams it appears that the rebels have retired toward Arkansas, probably hastened by the force under the latter officers. In view of these facts I do not apprehend