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Page 540 LOUISIANA AND THE TRANS-MISSISSIPPI. Chapter XLVI.

LEAVENWORTH, May 10, 1864.

COMMANDING OFFICER AT FORT LEAVENWORTH:

SIR: The officers of the Union Pacific Railroad Company, Eastern Division, are advised that trespassers are committing very considerable damage upon the Delaware lands. This is for the purpose of requesting that such military force may be placed upon these lands as will be sufficient to protect them from such trespass.

Very respectfully,

SAM. A. STINSON,

Attorney and Director for Union Pacific R. R., Eastern Div.

PAOLA, KANS., May 10, 1864.

Major C. S. CHARLOT,

Assistant Adjutant-General, Fort Leavenworth, Kans.:

Company I, Sixteenth Kansas Volunteer Cavalry, 40 rank and file, under a lieutenant, is here unarmed, but doing good service. Companies K and L I know nothing about.

THOS. J. McKEAN,

Brigadier-General, U. S. Volunteers, Commanding District.


HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF SOUTH KANSAS, Paola, Kans., May 10, 1864.

Colonel C. W. BLAIR,
Commanding First Brigade, Fort Scott, Kans.:

COLONEL: I inclose a telegram received from General Curtis in regard to a block-house and additional troops at Humboldt. You will carry out his views by removing all but one company from Pleasant Grove to Humboldt, and if you think it advisable remove Captain Kendall's company, Sixteenth Kansas Volunteers, there also, and take measures to complete the block-house as soon as possible.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

THOS. J. McKEAN,

Brigadier-General, U. S. Volunteers, Commanding District.


HEADQUARTERS INDIAN BRIGADE, Fort Gibson, C. N., May 10, 1864.

Major General S. R. CURTIS,
Commanding Department:

The enemy has not moved back this way yet. My commands are still after them. Captain Anderson had a skirmishing fight on the 8th above Maysville. He had 2 men wounded, 1 badly. Killed 6 of the enemy. Refugees are coming in from Northwestern Texas. Nearly all the Texas Rangers have started in. Rivers here falling. In reference to the purchase of ponies, but very few good ones can be got here. I would want about 1,000 stout, first-class ponies, about 14 hands high, and to bear close inspection. The Osages have many, and there are many in Kansas. I should have them at the earliest possible moment. There is grass. Could you buy them? I could send up to Kansas for them.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

WM. A. PHILLIPS,

Colonel, Commanding.


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