William Pfaender to H. W. Hallece, September 5, 1864
_ CAPTAIN: The orders received with your communication of the Ist instant have been carried into effect, and Company G, Thirtieth Wis- consin, will leave with the train for Fort Wadsworth to-morrow, together with the detachment of Company I, Second Cavalry, acting as escort to the down train. You have probably before this reaches you had an explanation of the Indian rumors about Paynesville and Manannah, which were occasioned by a mistake of Captain Slaughter, who noticed a squad of men from another post at a distance, of whose presence in the locality he knew nothing, and as his own borses whom he had expected to find at a place designated could not be found, he supposed that some Indians had got possession of them and were escaping. These are the facts which I have from one of the captain’s men who was with the party. Most
respectfully, your obedient servant,
LTieutenant-Colonel, Commanding.
City Pont, V. A., September 6, 1864—10.30 p.m.
Maj. Gen. H. W. HALLECE,
Telegraph General Sherman what General Washburn says of threatened movement toward Missouri. I think he will stop A. J. Smith and,
if necessary, send him against Price, Marmaduke & Co. I only intended that portion of the sick and detailed men of the Nineteenth
Corps, belonging to the portion of the command now under General