or out of the brush, to live in. Let the people feel the war. Compel them to haul forage and furnish subsistence. What ammunition will you need? Keep the rebels busy bearing your messages, and hold them responsible with their lives first and property afterward for prompt and faithful performance of duty.*

CLINTON B. FISK,

Brigadier-General.

MEXICO, September 24, 1864.

General FISK:

No word from General Douglass. We have word that the bushwhackers are aiming to concentrate int he northeastern part of Callaway. Will send a force of cavalry in that direction to-night from Wellsville and Fulton. Will telegraph you result.

F. D. EVANS,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

GLASGOW, MO., September 24, 1864.

Major F. D. EVANS,

Assistant Adjutant-General, Mexico:

I learn that a serious disaster occurred to the Third Cavalry Missouri State Militia, eight miles north of Rocheport, yesterday morning, by which their commissary and quartermaster train and thirty prisoners were lost. It appears that Colonel Matthews did not move his command in a body as ordered. When did General Douglass leave Mexico, and when would he be in the neighborhood of Rocheport?

CLINTON B. FISK,

Brigadier-General.

HUNTSVILLE, September 24, 1864.

General C. B. FISK:

Information just received that 400 rebels were at Brunswick Thursday evening. They sent in flag of truce and demanded a surrender. Colonel Moberly refused. They withdrew without attacking. Did not learn with way they went.

A. F. DENNY,

Lieutenant-Colonel.

HUNTSVILLE, September 24, 1864.

General C. B. FISK:

I learn from a reliable source that there were 100 guerrillas near Keytesville this morning, supposed to be going north.

A. F. DENNY,

Lieutenant-Colonel.

GLASGOW, MO., September 24, 1864.

Colonel A. F. DENNY, Huntsville:

Brunswick has not been threatened. Messenger just in from that point. All quiet and safe in their direction.

CLINTON B. FISK,

Brigadier-General.

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*For dispatch to which this is a reply, see Part I, p. 432.

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