through Platte County; they number about 25 and may get across the river into Kansas. I know they will be properly received by your command. Have you any news from the southern border?

CLINTON B. FISK,

Brigadier-General.

HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF SOUTH KANSAS,
Paola, Kans., June 2, 1864.

Colonel THOMAS MOONLIGHT,

Commanding Second Brigade, Mound City, Kans.:

COLONEL: General McKean directs me to inclose for your information a copy of instructions* from the commanding officer of the Department of Missouri to General Brown, commanding District of Central Missouri, in reference to co-operation with the troops of this district. Until other and more extensive arrangements can be effected, the general desires you to confer with the sub-district commander in Missouri adjoining your command, with a view to the co-operation of your respective forces in protecting the country along the State line in accordance with the spirit of said instructions.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

JOHN GRAY,

Lieutenant, and Aide-de-Camp, Actg. Asst. Adjt. General

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE NORTHWEST,
Milwaukee, Wis., June 2, 1864.

Brigadier General T. C. H. SMITH,

Commanding District of Wisconsin:

GENERAL: The major-general commanding directs that the three companies of the Thirtieth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry under your orders at Camp Reno be immediately sent to Saint Paul, Minn., where they will report to Brigadier-General Sibley, commanding District of Minnesota.

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

J. F. MELINE,

Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

MILWAUKEE, WIS., June 2, 1864.

General SIBLEY,

Saint Paul, Minn.:

I know of nothing to prevent your leaving for the frontier to-morrow. Be careful, however, to leave detailed instructions for the disposition of the companies of the Thirtieth Wisconsin, which will reach Saint Paul in a day or two.

JNO. POPE,

Major-General, Commanding.

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* See Rosecrans to Brown, May 30, p.129.

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