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227 Series I Volume XXXIV-IV Serial 64 - Red River Campaign Part IV

Page 227 Chapter XLVI. CORRESPONDENCE,ETC.-UNION.


HEADQUARTERS, Saint Louis, June 4, 1864.

Major-General CURTIS,
Commanding Department:

General Brown requests that you be advised there are evidences of a concentration of several hundred guerrillas, evidently with the intention of making a raid on some point in Missouri or Kansas. The general does not say where this concentration is taking place, but I presume he must mean somewhere on the western tier of counties of Missouri.

W. S. ROSECRANS,

Commanding Department of the Missouri.

FORT LEAVENWORTH, June 4, 1864.

General ROSECRANS,

Commanding Department of the Missouri:

Where is the most rebel concentration in your district? Keep me posted.

S. R. CURTIS,

Major-General.

PAOLA, June 4, 1864.

Colonel THOMAS MOONLIGHT,

Mound City:

The following dispatch has just been received from General Curtis:

Brown telegraphs General Rosecrans that several hundred rebels are gathering for a raid. I have telegraphed Brown to tell us where. Give notice to your troops and militia. Send scouts to the front. Rosey thinks it must be in Missouri, western counties.

S. R. CURTIS,

Major-General.

Have Colonel Snoddy ready to call out 300 of his militia when further notified.

By order of Brigadier-General McKean:

GEO. S. HAMPTON,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

PAOLA, KANS., June 4, 1864.

Lieutenant Colonel G. H. HOYT,

Olathe, Kans.:

The following dispatch has just been received from General Curtis:

FORT LEAVENWORTH, June 4, 1864.

General McKEAN:

Brown telegraphs General Rosecrans that several hundred rebels are gathering for a raid. I have telegraphed Brown to tell us where. Give notice to your troops and militia. Send scouts to the front. Rosey thinks it must be in Missouri, western counties.

S. R. CURTIS,

Major-General.

Have Colonel Keller ready to call out 300 of his militia when further notified.

By order of Brigadier-General McKean:

GEO. S. HAMPTON,

Assistant Adjutant-General.


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