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WARRENTON, October 15, 1864.
Captain FRANK ENO,
Assistant Adjutant-General:
I have fifty-seven men, of whom twenty-five are mounted. No news from Mexico, Allen, or Macon.
F. MORSEY,
Colonel.
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE BORDER,
Independence, Mo., October 15, 1864.Major-General HALLECK,
Chief of Staff:
Price's forces are in Lexington. He is reported still in Boonville. My troops are closing up rapidly. Will hurry them up with all the speed possible.
S. R. CURTIS,
Major-General.
SAINT JOSEPH, October 15, 1864.
Lieutenant-Colonel STARK,
Acting Assistant Adjutant-General:
Eight hundred of Shelby's men said to be at Keytesville, Chariton County, and 200 at Brunswick. This come from a Union prisoner who escaped.
J. RAINSFORD,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
FORT LEAVENWORTH, October 15, 1864,
Major-General CURTIS:
Following dispatch just been received:
SAINT JOE, October 15, 1864.
Lieutenant-Colonel STARK,
Assistant Adjutant-General:
Since last dispatch to you another dispatch just received from Weston. Provost-marshal at Liberty reports a large force moving up the river on this side; two hundred crossed to this side some fifteen miles below Liberty. Lexington and Carrollton have been evacuated.
By order of General Craig:
J. RAINSFORD,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
W. H. STARK,
Lieutenant-Colonel, &c.
FORT LEAVENWORTH, October 15, 1864.
Major-General CURTIS:
Colonel Cloud telegraph that he will leave Fort Scott with 100 dismounted men in wagons to join the Army of the Border. All well.
JOHN WILLIANS,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
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