under charge of the first sergeant, into Douglas County for active field service. They will be located at such points as will best promote the interests of the service, and keep in check the armed rebels and bushwhackers who infest that section, and will remain there until further orders. Captain R. B. Owen, assistant quartermaster, will furnish the necessary transportation for the rations and equipments of the men.

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4. Captain Jackson Ball, Company C, Sixth Provisional Enrolled Missouri Militia, stationed near Ozark, Mo., is directed to keep out a scout from his command of from eight to twenty men, until further orders, down White River as far as Forsyth and Dubuque. They will be instructed to report at once all information they may gain as to the movements of the enemy.

5. Captain McCullah, commanding Company H, Sixth Provisional Regiment, will proceed with his command to Marionville, Mo., without delay and occupy that post until further orders. He will scout the country in that vicinity, but will hold a portion of his command in readiness at all times for such escort duty as may be required.

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By order of Brigadier-General Sanborn:

WM. T. KITTREDGE,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

MACON, MO., September 10, 1864.

Colonel O. D. GREENE,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

I have made a personal inspection of the important bridges on the North Missouri Railroad and established at each a permanent guard. The block-houses are in good condition. I send 300 of Dyer's regiment (dismounted) into the brush in Boone to-night. The officers and men taken from the captured railroad train by the bushwhackers will be brought into Sturgeon this evening. We make no exchanges, simply get four white sheep for one lame black one got out of our pasture. I have no direct report from the different detachments after the guerrillas in Howard, but learn indirectly that our troops are going a good work. The new regiments will soon be in condition to be effective.

CLINTON B. FISK,

Brigadier-General.

HEADQUARTERS,
Saint Louis, September 10, 1864.

General FISK:

Colonel Beveridge has been to-day ordered to Glasgow with the Third Battalion of his regiment, where he can operate under your orders until further orders; but the general commanding is desirous of getting the regiment to another point as soon as possible. Report when you can spare them.

O. D. GREENE,

Assistant Adjutant-General.