difficult duty with vigor and energy. Report on arrival there to Captain White, at Liberty, from whom at present you will receive orders.

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

CLINTON B. FISK,

Brigadier-General.

HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF NORTH MISSOURI,
Saint Joseph, Mo., June 14, 1864.

Captain BENJAMIN F. POE, Commanding Post, Plattsburg, Mo.:

CAPTAIN: The general commanding directs me to acknowledge the receipt of your report of the affair at Ridgeley, and in reply to say that it agrees fully with reports of the matter heretofore given at these headquarters. the general commanding desires me to express to you, and through you to your company, his hearty thanks for the gallant conduct of the command on the 10th, and to say that your behavior before the enemy would have done credit to troops of far greater experience than yours. Orders have been issued placing 50 men of your company on permanent duty at and about Plattsburg and authorizing Captain Turney to place on duty 50 duty 50 of his men (to be stationed at Ridgeley).

I have the honor to be, captain, your obedient servant,

W. T. CLARKE,

First Lieutenant and Aide-de-Camp.

HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF NORTH MISSOURI,
Saint Joseph, Mo., June 14, 1864.

Captain D. P. WHITMER,

Company F, Fifty-first Regiment E. M. M., Richmond, Mo.:

DEAR SIR: You have been ordered on duty at Richmond. Select your men for detail promptly, and with energy, determination, and extermination, pursue the villains who are murdering your people and stealing their substance. Let administration be firm but prudent. Labor to unite rather than estrange the people. Let all stand shoulder to shoulder, without crimination or recrimination, in saving the country from devastation and carnage.

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

CLINTON B. FISK,

Brigadier-General.

HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF NORTH MISSOURI,
Saint Joseph, Mo., June 14, 1864.

Colonel A. J. BARR, Richmond, Mo.:

COLONEL: In acknowledgment and reply to your favor of the 12th instant, would say that I have ordered Captain Tiffin with his command to Greensville, Clay County, and Captain Whitmer has been ordered on duty at Richmond. I trust that everybody will unite and work for the common interest. Let us restore peace, exterminate the bushwhackers and thieves, and save the country.

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

CLINTON B. FISK,

Brigadier-General.