GENERAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS SAINT LOUIS DISTRICT, Numbers 47.
Saint Louis, Mo., October 7, 1864.

Pursuant to instructions from department headquarters I reassume command of the Saint Louis District. Major H. H. Williams, Tenth Kansas Veteran Volunteers, and Lieutenant David Murphy, Forty- seventh Missouri Infantry, are assigned temporarily on the staff as acting aides- de- camp. The remainder of the staff will be as it was on the 30th ultimo.

THOMAS EWING, JR.,

Brigadier-General.

HEADQUARTERS SAINT LOUIS DISTRICT,
Saint Louis, Mo., October 7, 1864.

Colonel BONNEVILLE,

Benton Barracks:

A train for Franklin will be ready to start at 2 p. m. Can the One hundred and thirty- second Illinois be at the depot at that- time! If it cannot, answer at once what time it can be there.

By order of Brigadier-General Ewing:

H. HANNAHS,

Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

BENTON BARRACKS, October 7, 1864.

Lieutenant H. HANNAHS,

Acting Assistant Adjutant-General:

The One hundred and thirty- second will be at the Fourteenth- street Depot at 6 o'clock this evening.

B. L. E. BONNEVILLE,

U. S. Amy, Commanding.

CARONDELET, October 7, 1864

Lieutenant H. HANNAHS,

Acting Assistant Adjutant-General:

Owing to the removal of my headquarters I did not get you telegram of yesterday until this moment. Colonel Stafford, with his segment, occupies the ford on the Meramec, on the Ternay Rock road, and at the different block- houses on railroad north of Victoria. The Eighth Enrolled Missouri Militia is guarding bridges from that point south. Colonel Fenn, First Enrolled Missouri Militia, and Colonel Smith are at De Soto furnishing guard for railroad train, and working parties further down the line and scouting. W ill send a detailed report to- morrow. I am on the way to De Soto now.

M. MILLER,

Brigadier-General.

CARONDELET, October 7, 1864.

Colonel MARSH,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

I have just received word that the rebels, about 300 strong, have burned the bridge next beyond the Big. River bridge. I will go down there this morning and try to stop their further depredations.

M. MILLER,

Brigadier-General, Commanding.