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519 Series I Volume XLI-III Serial 85 - Price's Missouri Expedition Part III

Page 519 Chapter LIII. CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.-UNION.

JEFFERSON CITY, September 30, 1864.

COMMANDING OFFICER,

Warrensburg:

Move at once with your entire command via Sedalia to this place.

By command:

J. H. STEGER,

Assistant Adjutant-General.


HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF CENTRAL MISSOURI,
Jefferson City, Mo., September 30, 1864.

E. G. TOOTE, Esq.,

Warrensburg, Mo.:

SIR: There are no arms here to issue. I ordered fifty stand sent from Sedalia, which, with those you have and double-barreled guns besides already in the hands of the citizen guards, will have to answer, as I cannot get any more now until the Enrolled Missouri Militia are armed. I send you an order to take command of citizen-guard organizations in Johnson County, with a list of the commanding officers. As Shelby is reported moving in force in this direction, and will soon be in the western portion of the State, a concentration will become necessary in order to be effective and prevent the rebels taking the arms of the citizen guards. I send you 2,000 buckshot cartridges, for which make requisitions and send to me for approval.

Yours, very truly,

E. B. BROWN,

Brigadier-General.

JEFFERSON CITY, September 30, 1864.

Captain J. T. GOODBRAKE,

Sedalia:

Move at once with your entire command via Tipton to this place.

By command:

J. H. STEGER,

Assistant Adjutant-General.


SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. 1ST SUB-MIL. DIST. CENTRAL Mo., Numbers 21.
Jefferson City, Mo., September 30, 1864.

Colonel Zevely, commanding Twenty-eighth Regiment Enrolled Missouri Militia, will, on receipt of this, move his entire command to Jefferson City forthwith and report to the commanding officer for orders.

By order of Colonel Frank W. Hickox, commanding:

G. B. MILLER,
Lieutenant and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

ROLLA, September 30, 1864.

Lieutenant-Colonel BRUTSCHE,

Acting Assistant Adjutant-General:

Instruct Captain See to make every effort to secure and keep on hand a good supply of rations. Bring the troops down to two-thirds rations, if necessary, to carry matters along to the middle of November. Use


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