WARRENSBURG, MO., May 31, 1864-7.15 p.m.

Colonel JOHN F. PHILIPS,

Sedalia, Mo.:

Your regiment is ordered to Springfield. One battalion will move immediately by way of Osceola; the balance as soon as relieved.

By order of Brigadier-General Brown:

J. H. STEGER,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

WARRENSBURG, MO., May 31, 1864-8.45 a.m.

Colonel GEORGE H. HALL,

Sedalia, Mo.:

Major-General Rosecrans reports that Jackman's men in small bodies are reported returning through Cooper and Moniteau Counties. You will please have the roads watched on the old routes.

E. B. BROWN,

Brigadier-General of Volunteers.

HEADQUARTERS STATION.

Independence, Mo., May 31, 1864.

Lieutenant E. L. BERTHOUD,
Assistant Adjutant-General, Fourth Sub-District:

LIEUTENANT: I have the honor to report that in obedience to circular dated headquarters Fourth Sub-District, May 25, Sergt. Moses S. Strew, Company F, Second Colorado Cavalry, with 15 men of Companies C and F, Second Colorado Cavalry, left this station on the evening of the 27th instant, went to Blue Springs, crossing of the Blue, followed that stream to Fire Prairie, from there following the western edge of Fire Prairie to Sibley, from thence up to the mouth of the Blue, from thence up that stream to Spring Branch Crossing, and thence to this station, where he arrived this p.m. at 5 o'clock. He reports seeing no bushwhackers and no fresh sings, except a single horse-track, leading from the Blue along the edge of Fire Prairie, which he followed several miles toward Sibley. He mentions hearing a report that several bodies, equaling some 200 in all had crossed the Missouri River toward the vicinity of Richfield.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

GEO. WEST,

Captain, Second Colorado Cavalry, Commanding Station.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSOURI,
Saint Louis, Mo., May 31, 1864

Brigadier-General SANBORN,

Springfield, Mo.:

Colonel Catherwood says you have a large number of muskets in store at Springfield in the arsenal in town. It seems to me it would be prudent at once to provide a place for them inside Fort Numbers 1. Report by telegraph the number of such arms, and any other information you may think worth communicating.

W. S. ROSECRANS,

Major-General.