to the right and center as reserves at daylight, unless you have information that the enemy are massing on your front. Let Hickox's brigade be so located that they can be easily [moved] to the right or center.

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

CLINTON B. FISK,

Brigadier-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. FIRST BRIGADE, U. S. FORCES, Numbers 215 1/2.
Jefferson City, Mo., October 8, 1864.

1. Major Douglas Dale, Fourth Cavalry Missouri State Militia, is hereby assigned to the command of the mounted force of Enrolled Missouri Militia at this post, and will immediately report to Colonel Frank W. Hickox, commanding Second Military District. The force will be thoroughly drilled and disciplined with as much dispatch as possible.

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By order of Brigadier-General Brown:

J. H. STEGER,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS FIRST BRIGADE,

October 8, 1864-9.30 p. m. (Received midnight.)

Brigadier-General SANBORN,

Commanding Forces:

GENERAL: Communication received. I had already sent yo two dispatches giving you all the information. The enemy attempted to camp to-night at the mill in my front. He was running it. I attacked him vigorously, and he abandoned it and moved west of Moreau and is encamped at Gordon's and Thomson's. His train to-night is reported by my pickets to be moving northward toward the Jefferson City and California road. Colonel Phelps' command reached here to-night and have gone into camp. The enemy's train crossed Moreau this morning above this. Where is the First Iowa Cavalry, and when will it report to me? Thurber's battery, I presume, is on your road. I need guns very much.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

J. F. PHILLIPS,

Colonel, Commanding.

HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI,
Springfield, Mo., October 8, 1864.

Major COSGROVE:

Yours received. General Holland has called Palmer's regiment into service, armed and furnished camp equipage. Have no startling news from the southwest. Guerrillas are active. Send all the news you get; have none here.

J. D. BRUTSCHE,

Lieutenant-Colonel and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.