12 Series I Volume XLI-III Serial 85 - Price's Missouri Expedition Part III
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SAINT LOUIS, MO., September 1, 1864.
Brigadier-General FISK,
Saint Joseph, Mo.:
The First Iowa Cavalry Volunteers should be gotten in readiness to move, but they will not leave until relieved by orders from these headquarters.
By order of General Rosecrans:
FRANK ENO,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
SAINT JOSEPH, September 1, 1864.
Captain FRANK ENO,
Assistant Adjutant-General:
I am concentrating the First Iowa Cavalry Volunteers at Mexico to await orders from department headquarters.
C. B. FISK,
Brigadier-General.
SAINT LOUIS, September 1, 1864.
Brigadier-General DOUGLASS,
Mexico, Mo.:
I want you to give the strength of the rebels in that country, and let me know what troops are needed to drive them from the country. Turn all your wits to teach our men the secret of expeditions to still-hunt and surprise the enemy. All that is wanted is to adopt the deer and bear hunting tactics. Our men must move by routes and at times to avoid being seen at all. No stopping at farm-houses or any other place to be seen.
W. S. ROSECRANS,
Major-General.
GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DISTRICT OF SOUTH KANSAS, Numbers 23.
Paola, Kans., September 1, 1864.In conformity with Special Orders, Numbers 180, department headquarters, I hereby assume command of this district. Orders heretofore in force will continue to be obeyed until otherwise directed.
GEO. SYKES,
Major-General, Commanding.
GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DISTRICT OF SOUTH KANSAS, Numbers 25.
Paola, Kans., September 1, 1864.The following officers are announced on the staff of the district commander: Captain G. S. Hampton, U. S. Volunteers, assistant adjutant-general; Major E. G. Ross, Eleventh Kansas Cavalry, district inspector; Major W. C. Ransom, Sixth Kansas Cavalry, judge-advocate and assistant commissary of musters; Surg. Philip Harvey, U. S. Volunteers, medical director; Captain B. F. Simpson, Fifteenth Kansas Volunteer Cavalry, acting assistant quartermaster and provost-marshal; Captain George J. Clark, Fourteenth Kansas Cavalry, ordnance officer; Lieutenant R. J. Harper, regimental commissary Eleventh Kansas Cavalry, acting
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