679 Series I Volume XXXIV-III Serial 63 - Red River Campaign Part III
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HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI, Springfield, Mo., May 19, 1864.Major O. D. GREENE,
Assistant Adjutant-General:I have just received a dispatch from Mount Vernon to the effect that a large number of rebels are gathering and have gathered about Neosho, and that heavy firing was heard in that direction last evening. I shall use every effort to get some more troops there to-night. Cannot you send me a regiment or battalion of well-mounted troops to operate with on the border?
JOHN B. SANDBORN,
Brigadier-General, Commanding.
HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI, Springfield, Mo., May 19, 1864.Colonel JOHN D. ALLEN,
Commanding, Mount Vernon, Mo.:
SIR: If you find that the enemy is as strong west as reported by Lieutenant Ritchey in his dispatch of last night, you will forthwith concentrate all troops of your regiment within your reach at Mount Vernon or Newtonian, and move upon the enemy in force at once, acting in conjunction with Major Burch. Small posts will be evacuated by your troops and left in charge of home guards and convalescents.
By order of Brigadier-General Sanborn:
Very respectfully,
W. D. HUBBARD,
Lieutenant and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.
SAINT LOUIS, MO., May 19, 1864.
Lieutenant W. T. CLARKE,
Aide-de-Camp:
Is there any foundation for the sensation reports in the newspaper concerning guerrillas near Saint Joseph? Send me all the particulars and any other information. Answer at once. Holloway and Harding leave the city to-day.
CLINTON B. FISK,
Brigadier-General.
HDQRS. DIST. OF MINN., DEPT. OF THE NORTHWEST, Saint Paul, Minn., May 19, 1864-11 p. m.
Lieutenant-Colonel PFAENDER,
Commanding Second Sub-District, Saint Peter:
COLONEL: Your dispatch of this morning, with inclosure, is received. The brigadier-general commanding directs you to order Captain Davy and Captain Slaughter, with their commands, immediately to the region of the Cottonwood and Watonwan Rivers, and to employ them, as well as Company A of Second Minnesota Volunteer Cavalry, on such scouting service as you may deem proper. Fort Wilkins should be reoccupied, and to that end you will detach
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