until the threatened trouble is over. You will also furnish Captain B. F. Simpson, acting assistant quartermaster, by detail of soldiers under your command, with the necessary force to carry on the work in his department.

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

GEO. S. HAMPTON,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

OLATHE, October 9, 1864.

Major-General CURTIS:

Lieutenant Goble, my adjutant, reports from Oxford, on the line, that artillery was heard in the direction of Independence to-day, commencing at about 3 p. m. and ending at 5.30.

Respectfully,

P. B. PLUMB,

Lieutenant-Colonel Eleventh Kansas Volunteer Cavalry.

FORT LEAVENWORTH, October 9, 1864.

Colonel PLUMB,

Olathe:

We were in communication with Independence till after 5, and no firing had been heard or spoken of then.

S. R. CURTIS,

Major-General.

PAOLA, October 9, 1864.

Lieutenant Colonel P. B. PLUMB,

Olathe, Kans.:

General Sykes informs me that Bill Anderson was at Lexington yesterday and Price at Sedalia. Look out for a raid. Every man must have forty rounds of carbine and pistol cartridges each in his box and saddle-bags. Instruct your command on this head.

T. MOONLIGHT,

Colonel.

PAOLA, October 9, 1864.

Lieutenant Colonel P. B. PLUMB,

Olathe, Kans.:

Keep out numerous scouts from every camp and have messengers ready to order a concentration whenever it is certain the enemy is approaching.

T. MOONLIGHT,

Colonel.

PAOLA, October 9, 1864.

Lieutenant-General PLUMB,

Olathe, Kans.:

I cannot think of moving Company I until its safety is really endangered, of which Captain Greer ought, by scouting, to be enabled to