James P. Major to Clinton B. Fisk, September 2, 1864

General FIsk: You have ample force already if properly disposed and used. There is abundance of bread-consuming, marauding, and traveling about, but no effective, well-concerted action to expel the rebels from those counties. The whole matter should be put under one head and the details arranged for concerted movement. Why not give the whole to Catherwood? Where are his troops? Answer. W. S. ROSECRANS, Major-General. SAINT JOSEPH, September 2, 1864. Major-General ROSECRANS, Saint Louis: Catherwood’s troops are at Liberty, in Clay County, numbering 230 men for duty. Catherwood is not in the district. Major King, also in command of the detachment, is in no respect inferior to Catherwood, and in many respects much the superior of the two officers. General Douglass will direct the movements of the troops in Boone and Howard. I shall send him every available man. You will remember, general, that none of the new troops are available, and my best militia companies are just now in the transition state from militia to volunteers, and the Ninth Cavalry Missouri State Militia are nearly all dismounted. Will do the best we can toward expelling the guerrillas with footmen. CLINTON B. FISK, Brigadier-General. Sarnt Louis, September 2, 1864. Brigadier-General DOUGLASS, Mexico, Mo.: Has your expedition started, and is it too far under_way to have a co-operative force sent on the Fanny Ogden, to land at Providence and move from thence to Columbia? I write by direction of the general commanding.

FRANK 8. BOND,