SAINT JOSEPH, MO., April 20, 1864.

Major-General ROSECRANS,

Saint Louis, Mo.:

I will delay my departure for Michigan until I learn more from Howard County. When will you visit the northwest?

CLINTON B. FISK,

Brigadier-General.

HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF NORTH MISSOURI,
Saint Joseph, Mo., April 20, 1864.

Lieutenant Colonel D. M. DRAPER,

Macon, Mo.:

Can you tell me who are the Enrolled Missouri Militia brigadiers of this district, and where I can reach them? Did Leonard get away promptly on his mission to Howard County? What of Hunnewell bushwhackers?

CLINTON B. FISK,

Brigadier-General.

HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF NORTH MISSOURI,
Saint Joseph, Mo., April 20, 1864.

Captain JESSE M. GENTRY,

Commissioner of Exemptions, Louisiana, Mo.:

CAPTAIN: The general commanding directs me to acknowledge the receipt of your note of April 17, 1864, and to reply as follows: Retain the militia in service for the present, and send up your provision returns, duly signed, to these headquarters for approval.

The general will be down to Macon City and Hannibal in the course of a few days, and will make such definite arrangements for the organization of the loyal militia as may be necessary to secure peace and quiet to the country.

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

W. T. CLARKE,

First Lieutenant and Aide-de-Camp.

GENERAL ORDERS, HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF KANSAS, Numbers 17.
Fort Leavenworth, Kans., April 20, 1864.

I. By General Orders, Numbers 164, War Department, current series, the Indian Territory and the military post of Fort Smith, included in the Department of Kansas, have been transferred to the Department of Arkansas. Officers serving within the limits so transferred will report accordingly.

II. Major General George Sykes, U. S. Volunteers, having reported in accordance with orders from the War Department, is hereby assigned to duty at these headquarters.

III. In order to render more efficient the regulations necessary to the care and protection of public property, the post of Fort Leavenworth is declared to be co-extensive with the military reservation, and all orders or parts of orders inconsistent herewith are hereby revoked. The erection of temporary buildings of any kind within the