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DISTRICT OF THE FRONTIER.*

Colonel WILLIAM R. JUDSON.

Second Brigade.

Colonel JOHN EDWARDS.

1st Arkansas, Lieutenant Colonel Elhanon J. Searle.

18th Iowa, Lieutenant Colonel Hugh J. Campbell.

2nd Kansas Cavalry, Major Julius G. Fisk.

2nd Indiana Battery, Lieutenant Hugh Espey.

Clarksville, Ark.

2nd Arkansas (five companies), Lieutenant Colonel Gideon M. Waugh.

Third Brigade.

Colonel THOMAS M. BOWEN.

13th Kansas, Lieutenant Colonel John B. Wheeler.

3rd Wisconsin Cavalry (six companies), Major John C. Schroeling.

3rd Kansas Battery, Lieutenant John F. Aduddell.

Roseville, Ark.

1st Kansas (colored), Colonel James M. Williams.

PINE BLUFF, ARK.

Colonel POWELL CLAYTON.

1st Indiana Cavalry (eight companies), Lieutenant Colonel Thomas N. Pace.

5th Kansas Cavalry (ten companies), Lieutenant Colonel Wilton A. Jenkins.

Abstract from return of the Department of the Missouri, Major General W. S. Rosecrans, U. S. Army, commanding, for the month of January, 1864.

Present for duty.

Command. Officers. Men. Aggregate Aggregate

present. present

and

absent.

General 20 --- 20 20

headquarters.

Benton 104 2,945 4,018 4,251

Barracks.

Schofield 3 114 138 188

Barracks.

District of 92 2,428 2,854 3,386

Central

Missouri.

District of 28 565 765 958

Northern

Missouri.

District of 37 1,043 1,385 1,634

Rolla.

District of 102 2,970 4,312 5,193

Saint Louis.

District of 151 4,238 5,095 6,777

Southwest

Missouri.

Enrolled 123 2,020 2,290 3,453

Missouri

Militia.

Transferred to --- --- --- ---

Departments of

Arkansas and

Kansas.

Grand total.+ 660 16,323 20,877 25,860

Continuation:

Command. Aggregate Pieces of Headquarters.

last return. field

artillery.

General 19 --- Saint Louis.

headquarters.

Benton 4,486 ---

Barracks.

Schofield 192 ---

Barracks.

District of 3,334 6 Jefferson City.

Central

Missouri.

District of 953 --- Macon.

Northern

Missouri.

District of 1,637 10 Rolla.

Rolla.

District of 5,074 14 Saint Louis.

Saint Louis.

District of 6,674 12 Springfield.

Southwest

Missouri.

Enrolled 3,832 ---

Missouri

Militia.

Transferred to 42,224 ---

Departments of

Arkansas and

Kansas.

Grand total.+ 68,425 42

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* The Second Brigade at Waldron and the Third at Van Buren, Ark., according to return for the month of January; but the tri-monthly return for January 31 reports the Second Brigade at Fort Smith. If that was the fact, that as well as the First (or Indian) Brigade, had been assigned January 1 and 6 to the Department of Kansas. See pp. 7 and 34.

+ The 2nd Colorado Cavalry, Lieutenant Colonel Theodore H. Dodd, Kansas City, not accounted for.

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