SAINT LOUIS, June 13, 1864.

Major-General CURTIS:

Your dispatch received. There is no doubt the gangs of rebel guerrillas sifting into this department will try to rob, steal, and destroy here on a small scale and pass out over yours. Of course you don't intrude in such cases as you speak of. You know why I am so carefully not to ask Kansas troops into Missouri. The people with whom I have to deal are so jealous they would rather suffer from the guerrillas, and where they alone are interested I wish them to have their choice.

W. S. ROSECRANS,

Major-General.

WARRENSBURG, MO., June 13, 1864 - 9 p. m.

Major-General CURTIS,

Leavenworth City, Kans.:

Colonel Ford telegraphs me that he has reliable information that the enemy, 500 strong, have concentrated near the Snibar Hills.*

E. B. BRIWN,

Brigadier-General of Volunteers.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF KANSAS,
Fort Leavenworth, June 13, 1864.

Honorable JAMES McDOWELL,

Mayor of Leavenworth:

Yours of this date in regard to an attack by bushwhackers and the killing of 1 man and taking of 6 horses on the Missouri side, and only 1 mile from the ferry landing, is just received. the attack was reported to me about 10 or 11 o'clock this morning, and Major Hunt, with a competent force, has been ordered and moved in pursuit. My command is limited to the State line, but I follow such outlaws to the line of death and destruction.

Respectfully, your obedient servant,

S. R. CURTIS,

Major-General.

HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT SOUTH KANSAS,
Paola, Kans., June 13, 1864 - 12 p. m.

COMMANDING OFFICER,

Coldwater Grove, Kans.:

The enemy are reported at Sni Hills. Move your company to Aybrey immediately.

By order of Brigadier-General McKean,

GEO. S. HAMPTON,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

P. S.- Give notice to the militia company in your neighborhood.

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* Transmitted same day by General Curtis to General McKean.

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