state of defense. Colonel Zevely will place a working party of fifty men at labor on this work and provide for a relief every four hours.

By order of Brigadier-General Brown:

J. H. STEGER,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

WARRENSBURG, October 5, 1864.

General E. B. BROWN:

I shall make every man leave this county who will not enroll in some organization for defense. If you have fatigue duty to do I can send them under guard to you.

E. S. FOSTER,

Major, Commanding.

HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF CENTRAL MISSOURI,
Jefferson City, October 5, 1864.

Colonel JOHN F. PHILIPS,

Commanding in the Field:

COLONEL: The general commanding directs that you will send the section of artillery to this post under suitable escort, and that you will move, with the First, Fourth, and Seventh Cavalry Missouri State Militia to Bolton's Ford, on the Osage, and send a heavy reconnaissance toward Vienna. You will endeavor to open communication with General McNeil, who is marching north toward the Osage. You will also establish communication between your command and that of Lieutenant-Colonel Draper, who is ordered to move, via Shelley's Ford, toward Linn. Acknowledge receipt of this order and the [sic].

I am, colonel, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

J. H. STEGER,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF CENTRAL MISSOURI,
Jefferson City, Mo., October 5, 1864.

Colonel JOHN F. PHILIPS,

Commanding in the Field:

COLONEL: The general commanding directs that you will move to Shelley's Ford, instead of Bolton's, as directed in dispatch dated 5 o'clock this p. m., General McNeil's force having occupied Bolton's Ford this evening.

I am, colonel, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

J. H. STEGER,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF CENTRAL MISSOURI,
Jefferson City, Mo., October 5,1 864.

Lieutenant-Colonel DRAPER:

Colonel Draper will move his command, together with the Seventeenth Illinois Cavalry and detachment of the Third Missouri State Militia, across the Osage River, in the direction [of] Linn. Colonel Draper will attack any small force of the enemy which he may meet.