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432 Series I Volume XLI-IV Serial 86 - Price's Missouri Expedition Part IV

Page 432 LOUISIANA AND THE TRANS-MISSISSIPPI. Chapter LIII.

SAINT LOUIS, November 4, 1864.

(Sent via Wellsville 4 p.m. 6th.)

Major-General PLEASONTON,

Jefferson City:

Send Seventeenth Army Corps, of General Smith's command, here as rapidly as possible. They are badly wanted to the front. Push everything to get them here.

By order:

J. V. DU BOIS,

Colonel and Chief of Staff.


SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DISTRICT OF CENTRAL MISSOURI, No. 234. Warrensburg, November 4, 1864.

1. Lieutenant Colonel T. T. Crittenden, Seventh Cavalry Missouri State Militia, is hereby assigned to the command of the post and of all the troops in the immediate vicinity of Warrensburg.

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By order of Colonel John F. Philips, commanding:

J. H. STEGER,
Assistant Adjutant-General.


HEADQUARTERS CAVALRY DIVISION,

Cassville, November 4, 1864-11.30 p.m.

Major-General ROSECRANS,

Commanding Department of the Missouri:

Prisoners that left Price's army late Sunday night say that he was within six miles of the Indian Nation, near Maysville, moving southwest with the main army, and that many regiments and brigades had moved off east, and that the rebel army had been more and more demoralized. I am sending out a reconnaissance to the Indian Nation to strike and follow Price's trail, and get his movements. Harrison represents the enemy strong about Fayetteville.

JOHN B. SANBORN,

Brigadier-General, Commanding District.

SAINT LOUIS, November 4, 1864.

(Sent to Mexico 3.20 p.m. 6th.)

Brigadier-General CRAIG,

Commanding, &c., Saint Joseph:

The general commanding is informed that you are calling out militia-men. He directs me to say that it is too late now to call them out, but in case it is necessary General Fisk will order it. He also wishes the militia afforded all possible facility consistent with the interest of the service for voting at the coming election.

FRANK S. BOND,

Major and Aide-de-Camp.


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