KNOBNOSTER, September 26, 1864.

Captain J. H. STEGER,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

Citizen just come in reports an additional band of fifty a few miles north of here.

W. B. BALLEW,

Captain, Commanding.

KANSAS CITY, September 26, 1864.

Major S. C. CHARLOT:

No troops here to relieve me. Would like to see you. Can come up to-day and back to-morrow by noon. Shall I come? I have ordered all mounted troops to be ready to move immediately.

J. H. FORD,

Colonel, Commanding.

FORT LEAVENWORTH, September 26, 1864.

Colonel FORD, Kansas City:

Come up.

C. S. CHARLOT,

Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.

SPRINGFIELD, September 26, 1864.

Major O. D. GREENE,

Chief of Staff:

Price's soldiers represent that it [is] his design to cross the stage road between Rolla and Lebanon.

J. B. SANBORN,

Brigadier-General.

SAINT LOUIS, MO., September 26, 1864.

Brigadier-General SANBORN,

Springfield:

Your intelligence and soldierly coolness will dictate that when the enemy advances our proper role is to compel him to travel in a compact body by attacking the heads of his columns and scattered parties fiercely, and keeping yourself from his grasp. Compelling him to concentrate we cut off his subsistence and prepare him for the attack by which we hope to destroy him.

W. S. ROSECRANS,

Major-General.

SPRINGFIELD, September 26, 1864.

Major-General ROSECRANS,

Commanding Department:

I will move to-morrow morning at 5 o'clock, and will be at Lebanon to-morrow night. I shall move with about 2,000 men, and leave the same number here, including militia and citizens. The artillery will all be left here unless otherwise ordered by you. I will give exact numbers when I start.

JOHN B. SANBORN,

Brigadier-General, Commanding.