WARRENSBURG, MO., September 19, 1864.

Major-General ROSECRANS,

Commanding Department of the Missouri:

Have taken measures to have a sharp watch kept for the rebels from Laclede County. Have telegraphed all stations and ordered expresses sent to all troops and citizen guards to the east to be on the lookout for them and waylay the roads for them.

E. B. BROWN,

Brigadier-General of Volunteers.

WARRENSBURG, MO., September 19, 1864.

Major-General ROSECRANS,

Commanding Department of the Missouri:

I have had Captain F. L. Parker organize 100 picket men at Sedalia under Order 107 for active service and bush fighting - call themselves Rosecrans Rangers. As this comprises all fighting men, I desire very particularly to arm them well. I respectfully ask that they may have carbines. Can it be done?

E. B. BROWN,

Brigadier-General of Volunteers.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DISTRICT OF CENTRAL MISSOURI, No. 201.
Warrensburg, Mo., September 19, 1864.

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3. Lieutenant Colonel T. T. Crittenden, Seventh Cavalry Missouri State Militia, will move without unnecessary delay, with two companies of his regiment and camp and garrison equipage, to Lexington, Mo., and assume command of the section of country in the immediate vicinity of that point. Colonel John F. Philips, commanding Seventh Cavalry Missouri State Militia, will order one company of his command to move at once to Hazel Hill, Johnson County, Mo., and await further orders.

4. Colonel James McFerran, commanding First Cavalry Missouri State Militia, will order four companies of his command (two companies from Lexington and two companies from Mound Prairie Church), with camp and garrison equipage, direct to Warrensburg, Mo. The commanding officer will be instructed to report his arrival at these headquarters.

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By order of Brigadier-General Brown:

J. H. STEGER,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

JEFFERSON CITY, September 19, 1864.

Brigadier-General BROWN,

Warrensburg:

Have just returned from California. All quiet there. They companies of the Fourth here. No other troops for duty. Shall I call on citizens here? Eight bushmen crossed the road east of Tipton Sunday night, going south in Osage timber when last heard from.

F. W. HICKOX,

Colonel, &c.