SAINT LOUIS, September 30, 1864- 3.50 p. m.

Governor YATES,

Springfield, Ill.:

Your letter by Captain Fitzgerald is received. I will do everything in my power to aid in the object you desire. We shall probably want the troops six or eight days. They will be brigaded and commanded by Colonel Wangelin, of your State.

W. S. ROSECRANS,

Major-General.

SPRINGFIELD, September 30, 1864-5.45 p. m.

Major-General ROSECRANS:

I received no dispatch from you last night and only one to-day, in which you say I had better send 100 stand of arms. I had, however, resolved to send 600 stand of arms, which have been shipped to-day. I send General Fuller down to-night to see you and to organize the Belleville regiment.

RICH'D YATES,

Governor.

SAINT LOUIS, September 30, 1864-1.40 p. m.

Major-General HEINTZELMAN,

Columbus, Ohio:

I thank you for what you have sent us. There is no Sixty-fourth Illinois, but a detachment of the Sixty-fourth Illinois, 180 strong, came and 100 were sent back to Chester, Ill., and 80 are on a steam-boat patrolling the Mississippi between here and Girardeau.

W. S. ROSECRANS,

Major-General.

MATTOON, September 30, 1864-11 a. m.

Major General W. S. ROSECRANS:

My regiment is on veteran furlough. Will rendezvous October 8. I could get them in sooner if needed. The Eleventh Minnesota Veteran Infantry are here on way to Louisville.

JAMES M. TRUE,

Colonel Sixty-second Illinois Veteran Infantry.

SAINT LOUIS, September 30, 1864-1.40 p. m.

Colonel JAMES M. TRUE,

Sixty-second Illinois Volunteers, Mattoon, Ill.:

It might be well to get your men together as soon as you can, but the general can give no instructions beyond his own department.

JOHN V. DU BOIS,

Colonel and Chief of Staff.