SPRINGFIELD, MO., September 20, 1864.

Major O. D. GREENE,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

Company A, Seventh Provisional Regiment,that has been on a reconnaissance to the mouth of North Fork, came in this morning. The lieutenant in command reports that he saw and conversed with a woman who left General Price's army the day before, and said Price was at Clinton a week ago yesterday,and intended to remain there until the infantry and artillery came up; that she has been with his army three weeks, and that the whole army had moved north, and that some cavalry was to tear up the railroad leading from Saint Louis to Rolla, and the main body was to advance and take Springfield. No force of the enemy was discovered.

JOHN B. SANBORN,

Brigadier-General, Commanding.

SPRINGFIELD, MO., September 20, 1864.

Major-General ROSECRANS:

Moses Powers is well known here, and used to be in General Holland's command. He was with parties of Fagan's men three times on his way up. The only thing he saw with his own was three bodies of cavalry of 500 or 600 men, and the roads over which the armies had passed, which he says were deeply cut up. All the other information he gave he obtained from citizens, rebel officers, and soldiers. General Holland says he is an honest and reliable man, and has always had the reputation of a good scout.

JOHN B. SANBORN,

Brigadier-General, Commanding.

SPRINGFIELD, MO., September 20, 1864.

Major O. D. GREENE,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

There are here fifty days' rations for my entire command, and hay rations at this post for eighty days. We have 2,500 tons of hay put up in the district. The grain forage is all in the fields yet, but we control it all. It is probably sufficient to last until spring.

JOHN B. SANBORN,

Brigadier-General, Commanding.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DIST. OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI, No. 254.
Springfield, Mo., September 20, 1864.

1. Captain G. W. Moore, Company M, Second Arkansas Cavalry,commanding at Ozark, Mo., will, upon receipt of this order, detail a scouting party from his company and Captain Ball's company, Sixth Provisional Regiment,consisting of two commissioned officers and fifty enlisted men, properly equipped and rationed. They will be instructed to proceed as far south as the mouth of the North Folk of White River, unless they encounter a large force of the enemy, in which case they will at once return informing these headquarters of the fact without