of non-commissioned officers), to be officered by 1 captain, 1 first lieutenant, and [1] second lieutenant. These companies will be organized into two provisional regiments of eight companies each, and will be denominated, respectively, the Tenth and Eleventh Provisional Regiments Enrolled Missouri Militia, being officered by such field and staff officers as may be designated in future orders. As the necessity which calls for the issuing of this order is an urgent one and as little delay can be experienced as possible, General Edwards will direct that the aforesaid companies shall report for duty on Thursday, the 10th instant, at such hour and place as he may designate, and he will be governed in their disposition by such orders as he may hereafter receive from these headquarters.

By order of the Commander-in-Chief:

JOHN B. GRAY,

Adjutant-General.

[Inclosure No. 3.]

ENROLLED MILITIA,
HDQRS. STATE OF MISSOURI, SPECIAL ORDERS, ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE, No. 146. Saint Louis, September 9, 1863.

I. Brigadier General A. G. Edwards, commanding First Military District, Enrolled Missouri Militia, is hereby instructed to detail as colonels of the Tenth and Eleventh Provisional Regiments now forming in his district Colonel C. D. Wolff, Fourth Regiment, and Colonel John Knapp, Eighth Regiment, Enrolled Missouri Militia, respectively, in accordance with Special Orders, No. 144, from these headquarters. General Edwards will make the selection himself for the other field and staff officers of the regiments aforesaid.

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By order of the Commander-in-Chief:

JOHN B. GRAY,

Adjutant-General.

[Inclosure No. 4.]

ENROLLED MILITIA,
HDQRS. STATE OF MISSOURI, SPECIAL ORDERS, ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE, No. 147. Saint Louis, September 10, 1863.

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III. Brigadier General A. G. Edwards, commanding First Military District, Enrolled Missouri Militia, is hereby directed to cause the commanding officers of the Tenth and Eleventh Provisional Regiments to report for duty to Major General J. M. Schofield, commanding the Department of the Missouri, as soon as the organization of their regiments is complete.

By order of the Commander-in-Chief:

JOHN B. GRAY,

Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSOURI,
Saint Louis, May 28, 1864.

Brigadier General E. B. BROWN,

Commanding Central Dist. of Mo., Warrensburg, Mo.:

GENERAL: The major-general commanding the department is informed, upon what is deemed reliable authority, that a want of activity of the troops within your district prevails to a considerable