feelings of insecurity here should, if possible, be made until planting is over. Please, if you approve, send orders at once about using the Ninth Iowa and Seventeenth Illinois Cavalry,and as to the dismounted cavalry form the depot.

W. S. ROSECRANS,

Major-General.

SAINT LOUIS, MO., April 17, 1864-5.30 p. m.

Lieutenant-General GRANT,

Culpeper:

The Ninth Iowa will be sent as ordered. The Twelfth Missouri and Thirteenth Illinois Cavalry can follow, but they are not mounted, nor have we any other mounted troops within 120 miles of Saint Louis. Judging from the last news of the rebels going south from Frot Pillow, and the tenor of you dispatch, I shall await your orders before sending forward foot troops.

W. S. ROSECRANS,

Major-General.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSOURI, Saint Louis, Mo., April 17, 1864.

T. McKISSOCK,
Superintendent Pacific Railroad, Seventh Street Depot:

Please stop the Ninth Iowa Cavalry, now between here and Rolla, immediately and return them to Saint Louis on the next train.

O. D. GREENE,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSOURI, Saint Louis, Mo., April 17, 1864.

General GUITAR,
Rolla, Mo.:

Direct Colonel Trumbull, Ninth Iowa, to report to Captain Grumes for railroad transportation to this city as soon as practicable.

O. D. GREENE,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSOURI, Saint Louis, Mo., April 17, 1864.

General GUITAR,
Rolla, Mo.:

If the Ninth Iowa Cavalry has started for Springfield send courier to turn it back at once. Special train will be at Rolla by to-morrow morning to bring the regiment back here with greatest dispatch. Reply by telegraph.

O. D. GREENE,

Assistant Adjutant-General.