LITTLE ROCK, April 30, 1864.

Colonel A. H. RYAN,

Commanding, Lewisburg:

The general commanding directs me to request you to telegraph him matters at your post. How is the river? The general wishes you to keep him informed of what is going on around you.

SAM. T. BRUSH,

First Lieutenant, Eighteenth Illinois Infantry, A. A. A. G.

LITTLE ROCK, April 30, 1864.

Lieutenant Colonel I. W. FULLER,

Commanding, Dardanelle:

How are affairs with you? How is the river? The general commanding wishes you to keep him posted on the state of the country around you.

SAM. T. BRUSH,

First Lieutenant, Eighteenth Illinois Infantry, A. A. A. G.

CULPEPER COURT-HOUSE, VA., April 30, 1864-1 p.m.

(Received 1.30 p.m.)

Major General W. S. ROSECRANS,

Saint Louis, Mo.:

General Sherman has stripped his rear to get troops for the field, calculating on his furloughed men yet to return to take their place. His dismounted cavalry will have to be sent as he desires. Send it without delay. Should secret movement in Missouri require a greater force than you now have you will be able to get any amount necessary from the 100-days' men now raising and from the State militia.

U. S. GRANT,

Lieutenant-General.

SAINT LOUIS, MO., April 30, 1864.

(Received 5 p.m.)

Lieutenant-General GRANT,

Culpeper, Va.:

No 100-days' men are being raised in this department. The rebel raids have begun from the south in the Central District. The emergency cannot be met in that way and is a present one. If your order these troops away without replacing [them], disaster will follow. Why should the grand depot be risked and such places as Columbus and Paducah be guarded?

W. S. ROSECRANS,

Major-General.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSOURI,
Saint Louis, Mo., April 30, 1864.

Colonel T. P. HERRICK,

Commanding Seventh Kansas Cavalry:

COLONEL: I have the honor to state, by direction of the major-general commanding, that the 100 men mentioned in my communi