HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI,
Springfield, Mo., October 11, 1864.

Major COSGROVE,

Lebanon: Lieutenant Shubert informs me that Captain Russell, commanding escort sent from here to meet the train, ordered the escort from Lebanon to return there. Please send messenger at once and order them to Springfield, as I am short of mounted men. Three hundred rebels reported on Crane Creek. No other news.

J. D. BRUTSCHE,

Lieutenant-Colonel and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI,
Springfield, Mo., October 11, 1864.

Major COSGROVE,

Lebanon:

Send McClurg word at once of Price's movements and suggest that he send scouting parties in every direction north of the Osage to capture stragglers. Rebel bands are active south and west; 100 on Crane Creek, twenty-five miles south of this place. They murdered several citizens to-day. Send the two rebels by Shubert.

J. D. BRUTSCHE,

Lieutenant-Colonel and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI,
Springfield, Mo., October 11, 1864.

Major MELTON,

Cassville:

Major Burch, with a good force from Neosho, and Major Moore, with a scout from Mount Vernon, have gone in the direction of Carthage to hunt the enemy. You need fear no trouble from that source. Send Miss Martin to Major Burch. Direct her to report here soon as possible.

J. D. BRUTSCHE,

Lieutenant-Colonel and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DIST. OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI, Numbers 273.
Springfield, Mo., October 11, 1864.

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II. Major J. A. Melton, commanding at Cassville, Mo., will, upon receipt of this order, direct Companies E and I, Second Arkansas Cavalry, to move with their camp and garrison equipage and to escort Government train from that post to Springfield, Mo. Upon arriving at this place they will report to the commanding officer of the post for duty.

By order of Brigadier General John B. Sanborn:

J. D. BRUTSCHE,
Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.