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136 Series I Volume XLI-IV Serial 86 - Price's Missouri Expedition Part IV

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HEADQUARTERS,
October 20, 1864-4.15 p. m.

Major General A. PLEASONTON,

Cook's Store:

Dispatch received 20th instant 4.15 p. m. on the Georgetown road. Will go to Dunksburg and probably to Brownsville to see General Smith. Hope to receive a dispatch telling me if the enemy is at Dover, or have all moved to Lexington.

W. S. ROSECRANS,

Major-General.

DUNKSBURG, October 20, 1864-11 p. m.

Major-General PLEASONTON,

Cook's Store:

Your dispatches, movements, and reconnaissance seem successful. We did not get our wagons until 3 p. m., and could not get beyond this place. Your plan of remaining until General Smith fully closes up is approved. We will try to get to Cook's Store by 3 p. m. to-morrow. Communicate with me on the road from here to Cook's Store by couriers. Hope to hear from you early in the morning.

W. S. ROSECRANS,

Major-General.

ROLLA, October 20, 1864.

Captain FRANK ENO,

Assistant Adjutant-General, Saint Louis:

Infantry: Forty-fourth Missouri Volunteers, Companies A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, and K; Forty-seventh Missouri Volunteers, Companies A, E, F, G, H, and I; Forty-eighth Missouri Volunteers, Companies A, B, C, D, E, F, and G; First Missouri State Militia, Companies C, F, G, H, and I.

Cavalry: Ninth Missouri State Militia, Companies F and G; Third Missouri State Militia, Companies A, H, and I; Second Missouri State Militia, Company H; Second Arkansas Volunteers, Company H.

Artillery: Batteries B and H, Second Missouri.

Enrolled Missouri Militia: Thirty-fourth, Companies, F, G, and I; Sixty-third, Companies A, D, F, H, and K.

A. SIGEL,

Colonel Fifth Missouri State Militia Cavalry, Commanding District.

SAINT JOSEPH, MO., October 20, 1864.

Brigadier-General FISK,

Jefferson City, Mo.:

There is nothing of special interest transpiring just now. Everything quiet throughout district. Price has evidently concentrated everything, bushwhackers and all, at Waverly or near there. There is a small force of bushwhackers reported in Monroe County. General Craig has got everything into confusion, which your presence along can straighten out. I am overrun with business, and there is a large amount of mail here that I have not touched, as Captain Holloway took


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