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all beef if necessary; be as saving of ammunition as possible, and if short seize all powder from the merchants and hold till the crisis has passed. Ewing was compelled to evacuate for want of rations and ammunition. All his horses and trains are supposed to have been captured. Has Captain Roberts' company, Seventh Provisional, Company L, Second Arkansas, and E, Sixth Missouri State Militia, come forward? If they have not, keep them.
J. B. SANBORN,
Brigadier-General, Commanding.
ROLLA, September 30, 1864.
Lieutenant-Colonel BRUTSCHE,
Acting Assistant Adjutant-General, Springfield, Mo.:
Continue the work on the fortifications until they are entirely complete. Pilot Knob was evacuated on Wednesday morning. Ewing has been falling back fighting, and we fear has been captured. The enemy is estimated at 15,000, and is said to have lost 1,500 killed and wounded in his assaults on Pilot Knob. We are busy making preparations here.
JOHN B. SANBORN,
Brigadier-General.
HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI,
Springfield, Mo., September 30, 1864.Brigadier-General SANBORN, Rolla, Mo.:
Will give especial attention to the commissary and ammunition, and complete the works without delay. Company E, Sixth Missouri State Militia, and L, Second Arkansas, are at Lebanon. Have directed Major Cosgrove to send them to Rolla at once. Roberts' company is here, the only mounted company at the post. Shall I start them to Rolla?
J. D. BRUTSCHE,
Lieutenant-Colonel and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.
HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI,
Springfield, Mo., September 30, 1864.Major COSGROVE, Lebanon:
Send Company E, Sixth Missouri State Militia, and Company L, Second Arkansas Cavalry, to Rolla at once. Will get General Holland to order out the Enrolled Missouri Militia at once.
J. D. BRUTSCHE,
Lieutenant-Colonel and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.
GLASGOW, September 30, 1864-840. p. m.
Major-General ROSECRANS:
Price is sending his officers to this district to stir up the recruits. Our troops at carrollton killed a rebel colonel and two other recruiting officers yesterday. I have reports of the killing of a few of Anderson's demons by a detachment of Dyer's troops in Montgomery County to-day.
CLINTON B. FISK,
Brigadier-General.
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