HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF CENTRAL MISSOURI,
Warrensburg, Mo., April 13, 1864.

Second Lieutenant A. L. GOODING,

Company H, Second Colorado Cavalry

(Through Colonel James H. Ford, comdg. 4th Sub-Dist., Kansas City):

LIEUTENANT: I am directed by the general commanding to acknowledge the receipt, through headquarters Fourth Sub-district, of your report, dated 8th instant, and to say that the thorough and efficient manner in which you have scouted the section of country referred to, and the subsequent excellent report of the same, merits and receives the thanks of the commanding general. Such work will certainly prevent bushwhackers from obtaining a hold in the country.

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

J. H. STEGER,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSOURI,
Saint Louis, Mo., April 13, 1864.

Brigadier-General FISK,

Saint Joseph, Mo.:

I am informed that in Platte and Clay Counties the order to prevent the sale of arms and ammunition has not been duly published and observed; that Unio men in some instances have been refused permission to buy. Have the order published in the local papers.

W. S. ROSECRANS,

Major-General.

KANSAS CITY, MO., April 13, 1864.

Colonel J. P. SANDERSON,

Provost-Marshal-General, Saint Louis, Mo.:

In order to distribute authority over my district I think it best to establish headquarters of my district provost-marshal at Hannibal. I will keep my own at Saint Joseph for the present. Will that arrangement be satisfactory to you? I am on a tour of inspection in Platte and Clay Counties. Shall be at Saint Joseph to-morrow.

CLINTON B. FISK,

Brigadier General, Commanding Northern District of Missouri.

HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF COLORADO,
Denver, Colo., April 13, 1864.

Major General S. R. CURTIS,

Commanding Dept. of Kansas, Fort Leavenworth, Kans.:

Lieutenant Dunn, First Cavalry of Colorado, had a fight with a party of Cheyenne Indians on north side of Platte River, near Fremont's Orchard, on 12th instant; had 4 men badly wounded and killed a number of Indians. They are stealing stock in every direction and refusing to give it up. I have a strong detachment on headwaters Smoky Hill Fork, after party which stole 175 head of Irwin, Jackman & Co.'s oxen. I shall chastise them severely unless you direct differently.

J. M. CHIVINGTON,

Colonel, Commanding District of Colorado.