Chalk Bluff and Brewer's Ferry to watch the approach of any rebel force. Be active and suffer no force to surprise you or to enter my subdistrict without your knowledge.

H. M. HILLER,

Lieutenant-Colonel, Commanding Second Sub-District.

SAINT LOUIS, MO., September 16, 1864.

Captain EDWARDS,

New Madrid:

It is rumored that a force is moving up from Jacksonport. Keep out all the available cavalry you have and patrol all the main approaches from Arkansas, and suffer no force to approach east of Little River without your knowledge. If you find there is no force on the east side of Little River send your force toward Clarkton. Be cautious and vigilant.

H. M. HILLER,

Lieutenant-Colonel, Commanding Second Sub-District.

WARRENSBURG, September 16, 1864.

Major F. S. BOND,

Aide-de-Camp:

It is comparatively safe for citizens to travel from Sedalia to Clinton. Very few, if any, guerrillas in that section of country.

E. B. BROWN,

Brigadier-General.

HEADQUARTERS SEVENTEENTH ILLINOIS CAVALRY,
Jefferson City, September 16, 1864.

Captain J. H. STEGER,

Assistant Adjutant-General, Central District of Missouri:

SIR: In pursuance of orders of the general commanding the Central District of Missouri, I have the honor to advise you that I have established headquarters of regiment at this place.

Yours, very respectfully,

JOHN L. BEVERIDGE,

Colonel Seventeenth Illinois Cavalry.

SAINT LOUIS, September 16, 1864.

Colonel BEVERIDGE,

Seventeenth Illinois Cavalry, Jefferson City:

The general commanding directs you to march across the country to Rolla and report to General McNeil with the two battalions now under your command.

O. D. GREENE,

Assistant Adjutant-General and Chief of Staff.