forty-eight hours, they cannot follow the Indians with any hope of overtaking them. I wish you would order me to pursue them until I do overtake them or something definite.

Yours, in haste,

JOE C. DAVIDSON,

Captain, Commanding Camp Dunn.

HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF COLORADO,
Denver, Colo. Ter., June 12, 1864.

Captain J. C. DAVIDSON,

First Cavalry of Colorado:

Yours of this date received. When that order was written it was thought the Indians were encamped within a few miles of your command, and that forty-eight hours would be sufficient to overtake, kill, and return. Use your own discretion in regard to following the Indians, but do not delay a moment longer than there appears to be a prospect of success.

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

J. S. MAYNARD,

Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

FORT RANDALL, June 12, 1864-11 p. m.

(Via Council Bluffs, 8.10 p. m.)

Genera POPE:

Thirty Uncpapa Sioux to-day at noon came within half a mile of this fort; drove off 40 cavalry horses. Troops sent in pursuit. Indians escaped without the horses. Will write by mail.

SULLY,

General.

WASHINGTON, D. C., June 13, 1864-8 p. m.

(Received New Orleans, 24th.)

Major-General CANBY, Vicksburg, Miss.:

With regard to subject of your telegram of the 4th instant to General Meigs, the supply of stock and materials for the repair of the railroad from Vicksburg to Monroe, I am directed by the Secretary of War to say that the expediency of the expense is so much doubted as that it has been referred to Lieutenant General U. S. Grant.

JAS. A. HARDIE,

Colonel and Inspector-General.

QUARTERMASTER'S DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF CHIEF OF WESTERN RIVER TRANSPORTATION,

Saint Louis, Mo., June 13, 1864.

Major General E. R. S. CANBY, Vicksburg, Miss.:

GENERAL: I am in receipt of the following dispatch from General Allen this day:

LOUISVILLE, June 12, 1864.

General Canby has made a requisition for four small propeller tug-boats, to be used for dispatch-boats. Says they are indispensably necessary.

R. ALLEN.