FIELD HEADQUARTERS FRONTIER, In the Field, Plum Creek, Platte Valley, September 2, 1864. For convenience of a movement against Indians, the following arrangement of troops in this vicinity is temporarily…
Fulton, Mo. Fulton, Mo., September 2, 1864. LIEUTENANT: I have the honor herewith to submit to you my monthly report. During the past month the bushwhackers have been more troublesome…
WESTON WESTON, September 2, 1864. General Fisk: Gordon has gone north toward the Iowa line—the only whacker of any prominence now left to engage our attention except Capt. William Downing.…
Saint Louis Saint Louis, 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…
SAINT JOSEPH SAINT JOSEPH, September 2, 1864. Major Bonn, Aide-de-Camp : _ Catherwood is not in my district. He is now in Saint Louis recruiting. I have only a portion…
Saint Louis Saint Louis, September 2, 1864. General FIsk: A man named Gilstrap is reported to be in Howard and Randolph under the pretense of being a recruiting officer, committing…
Warrensburg Warrensburg, September 2, 1864. Major Kelly, with three companies of Fourth Missouri Militia, at Tabo and Higgins’ farm, and the two companies at Chapel Hill, has been ordered to…
Saint Louis Saint Louis, September 2, 1864. Major SuEss, Glasgow: I have no report of the capture of this boat or of the doings of the captors. Report by telegraph…
Saint Louis Saint Louis, September 2, 1864. General MCNEIL, Rolla, Mo.: If the two companies Ninth Missouri State Militia Cavalry have not gone to Jefferson retain them and send sufficient…
Rouua, Mo. Rouua, Mo., September 2, 1864. Captain HuDson, Acting Assistant Adjutant-General : A heavy commissary train of 100 wagons loaded with stores, for which the commissary at Springfield, Mo.,…